Venezuela

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The latest failed attempts at terrorism and electoral sabotage
May 23, 2025 , 10:22 am .


President Nicolás Maduro called for a vote for peace and stability in Venezuela in the face of threats of terrorism and sabotage (Photo: Venezuelan Presidential Press)

On Monday, May 19 , the Vice President of the Policy, Citizen Security, and Peace Sector, Diosdado Cabello, denounced a new conspiracy and terrorism plot in Venezuela, resulting in the arrest of 38 people, 17 of them foreigners, linked to plans to sabotage the regional elections.

These actions reportedly included explosive attacks on embassies, hospitals, police transportation units, and electrical substations. They also sought to target high-ranking government officials, social leaders of the Chavista movement, and even opposition members who will participate in the regional and legislative elections on May 25.

The objective was to create a climate of terror to portray to the international community that Venezuela is in no condition for elections and, in doing so, to sow fear among the population so they won't go out and vote. For this reason, the government decided to suspend air connections with Colombia.

Among those arrested is a Colombian citizen of Albanian origin, wanted as an international drug trafficker. Investigations reveal that this individual had a hotel reservation in Caracas paid for from the United States and had ties to the Albanian mafia operating in Ecuador.

It's known that drug trafficking and corruption networks have been operating in the Andean country since 2009, involving Danilo Carrera, brother-in-law of former President Guillermo Lasso; Rubén Cherres, Carrera's close friend and oil businessman; and high-ranking law enforcement officials. The case was revealed by the digital media outlet La Posta , whose journalists were forced to leave Ecuador under threat.

Cabello also denounced the existence of paramilitary training camps in Ecuador run by American mercenary Erik Prince, who visited the country last April to "advise" the government on security matters.

Furthermore, she blamed the coordinator of the Vente Venezuela movement, María Corina Machado, for these plans and indicated that seven of those arrested are implicated in criminal activities linked to a cryptocurrency organization that is allegedly "related to a network of narco-mayors" in the state of Zulia.

During the early hours of Friday, May 23, two days before the elections, the remaining terrorist group led by opposition extremist Juan Pablo Guanipa Villalobos, which had been in hiding since last January, was dismantled . As a result of the police operation, electrical detonators, C4 explosives, cell phones, computers, and various explosives equipment were seized.

Cabello reported that "drug trafficking is the main source of financing for these operations" and that among those captured days earlier are Albanian and Bulgarian citizens, as well as four Pakistani mercenaries with false documentation. He also indicated that the day before, a meeting had taken place with former Venezuelan police commissioner Iván Simonovis in which the installation of explosives was agreed upon, starting Friday. So far, the following have been arrested: José Ledezma, Carlos Marcano, Isidro León, Luis Gutierres, Carlos Gómez, Naomi Arnáudez, Yraida Ruiz, Enrique Gómez, Jhonnel Narváez, and Yalida Mendoza. All linked to the terrorist plot.

The violent threat that has become permanent
Machado announced on May 9 that "a very complex plan is underway to further weaken" the Venezuelan government. Furthermore, last Wednesday he urged the population to stay home on election day. For its part, the Democratic Unitary Platform (PUD), led by Machado, maintains its rejection and considers the call for a "hasty, unfair, and rigged" election by "a severely questioned referee."

While maintaining a politicized discourse, this extremist sector of the opposition has been openly involved in acts of criminal violence; this agenda has not diminished, although it has undergone transformations. Its mechanisms have been different and, at times, have favored street violence, as in 2014 and 2017, but recently this agenda has focused more on paramilitary violence.

Since July 28, several schemes have been dismantled , notable for their constant threats, the instrumentalization of criminal gangs such as Tren del Llano, among others, and the infiltration of Venezuelan and foreign mercenaries.

Regarding the threats, the propaganda surrounding the "Ya Casi Venezuela" campaign, which involved Prince, was led by Iván Simonovis, whom Cabello accuses of being behind the plot dismantled in recent days. Last October, a shipment of weapons linked to a violent plot similar to the case in question was seized .

The most notorious case of mercenary infiltration was Operation Gedeón in 2020; however, Spanish intelligence agents were arrested in September 2024, and other mercenaries were captured in January of this year, prior to President Nicolás Maduro's inauguration. By that date, more than 150 mercenaries of 25 nationalities had been detained in Venezuela.

It's worth remembering that, stripped of ideas and political proposals, the extremist opposition has lost any ability to rally people and has offered its followers solutions described as " magical " by other militants in that sector, which only demonstrates strength when supported by foreign sponsors.

The sponsor of the "weakening" plan being attempted is US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who also operates on a broader international spectrum.

Guyana as bait for a war scenario
Specifically, the US foreign policy chief has sought to inflame differences with the Cooperative Republic of Guyana to provoke a war scenario. His visit to the neighboring country last March sought to consolidate it as a satellite state against Venezuela and a subsidiary of the oil company ExxonMobil, within the framework of the territorial dispute over the Essequibo.

Venezuela has included the state of Guayana Esequiba in its electoral call, in line with the majority vote approved in the referendum held in December 2023. Therefore, on May 25, a governor, seven deputies to the Legislative Council, and representatives to the National Assembly (AN) will be elected for the first time.

Guyana has reported two alleged attacks from Venezuelan territory, seeking to reuse the trusted resource of the false flag operation, a trademark of the United States. After the first, which occurred during the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) summit, the perpetrators were captured by Venezuelan authorities, and President Nicolás Maduro reported that they confessed to having been hired to "assassinate or kidnap" security agents from the neighboring country.

Furthermore, on April 5, Venezuela reported that a simulated attack was being planned against an ExxonMobil platform in the still-undemarcated Essequibo waters to hold the Venezuelan state responsible. Prince was also implicated in the attack.

Misión Verdad has identified a pattern accompanied by a narrative offensive from Georgetown intended to delegitimize the upcoming electoral process. During his visit, Rubio declared from Guyana that his country would not hesitate to intervene militarily if Venezuela decided to act to defend its territory in the dispute over Guayana Esequiba, a differential factor for the profits of the oil company ExxonMobil.

Defend the right to choose and move forward
For those calling for a boycott of the May 25 elections, creating fear and anxiety is a useful strategy; it would be the card needed to generate abstention and reinforce their narrative. Although they aren't mobilizing people, the leaders around Machado are trying to extract a payback from the demobilization that terrorist-type violence would generate.

On the other hand, renewing and/or ratifying both regional authorities and parliamentarians is essential for Venezuelan political life; it is a right of the general public. However, the supposed defenders of democracy are trying to prevent this.

The Bolivarian National Armed Forces (FANB) have deployed Operation Republic, and the Head of State has reaffirmed the activation of a "special peace and security defense plan" for the elections. In particular, he ordered the reinforcement of the National Electricity System's defense plans against the newly detected threats.

The goal is for the population to express itself safely and freely, for differences or disagreements to be resolved through voting and debated in eminently political spaces like the National Assembly. Furthermore, citizen participation in the electoral process will be another step toward continuing the plans for economic recovery and national stability. These are fundamental keys to sovereignty.

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Venezuela’s Foreign Ministry Welcomes Observers for May 25 Elections
May 24, 2025


Venezuelan deputy foreign minister for Latin America, Rander Peña, greets Wasna Papai Danfa, member of the Political Bureau of the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (PAIGCV), who will act as an observer for the May 25 elections. Photo: Telegram/@RanderPena.

The Venezuelan deputy foreign minister for Latin America, Rander Peña, welcomed international observers arriving in Venezuela for the May 25 elections.

In a message posted on his social media on Thursday, May 22, Peña reported that he has already held fruitful meetings with:

Wasna Papai Danfa: member of the Political Bureau and special advisor to the president of the Guinean National People’s Assembly (ANP) of the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (PAIGC).
Konrad Sitarara: director of the South West African People’s Organization (SWAPO) of Namibia.
Kevin Go: general secretary of the Congolese Communist Party (PCCO).
Scholastica Ephraim: president of organization of the Saint Lucia Labor Party.
Harun Armagan: vice president for Foreign Affairs of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) of Türkiye.
Rawashdeh Bassam Abdel Hamid Falah: Member of the Central Committee of the Jordanian Democratic People’s Party.
“To all of them we convey the greetings of President Nicolás Maduro Moros and the Venezuelan people, who raise the just and noble flags of humanity,” he said in his message.

Over 400 international observers will be present for the regional and legislative elections in Venezuela this Sunday, as reported by President Nicolás Maduro on his program Con Maduro Live De Repente on Thursday.

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Calm in Venezuela on the Eve of Regional and Legislative Elections
May 25, 2025


Two persons reading a National Electoral Council sign in front ot a voting center in Venezuela ahead of the May 25 elections. Photo: Telesur.

On the eve of the regional and legislative elections to be held on Sunday, May 25, peace and calm prevail in the streets of Venezuela, while the authorities maintain a series of measures aimed at safeguarding public order and citizen security.

From San Cristóbal, the capital of Táchira state, Telesur correspondent Paola Dragnic reported that the city is completely calm. On Sunday, a total of 850,000 voters will go to the polls in the 29 municipalities of the state. Security measures will remain in place along the Colombia-Venezuela border until Monday night.

Journalist Madeleine García witnessed people’s enthusiasm to vote in Guayana Esequiba, the state that will elect its governor, legislative authorities and National Assembly deputies for the first time.



In an exclusive interview with Telesur, the administrative head of Guayana Esequiba, Neil Villamizar, said that there is a pleasant atmosphere, camaraderie, and tranquility in the towns of Tumeremo, El Dorado, and Las Claritas. “We are taking positive steps in the process of recovering our Guayana Esequiba,” he added.

The elections represent a political breakthrough, as authorities will be elected to form the necessary structure for the state to integrate into the Venezuelan legislative dynamic. “There is joy and enormous anticipation for this step,” Villamizar commented.

On Saturday, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro urged the people of the country to actively participate in the May 25 elections, with the goal of building peace and a future.

“Get up early this Sunday to keep building a different Venezuela,” the president’s message on social media emphasized.



Complete installation of polling stations
The vice president of the National Electoral Council (CNE), Carlos Quintero, reported on Friday, May 23, that the polling stations were fully set up throughout the country. Voting table members of each polling station and witnesses from political parties participated in the process. According to Quintero, this means that the infrastructure designed by the CNE, including the 15,736 voting centers and 27,713 polling stations, is ready for May 25.

On Sunday, starting at 5:00 a.m., CNE officials will visit each polling station to launch the voting logistics. An hour later, the regional and legislative elections will officially open.

Quintero explained in an interview with VTV that the electoral mechanism was tested during the voting drill to evaluate “all the technical and logistical aspects, as well as the protocols of the operational technical staff we have deployed in the field.” He noted that this is a complex election from a technical standpoint, “but we have made a great effort to make the voting experience very simple for voters.”

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Venezuela Heads to the Polls Amid Divided Opposition and United Chavismo
May 24, 2025


Venezuelan people marched in the rain on July 30 in defense of the July 28 electoral results. Photo: Zoe Alexandra.

By Pablo Meriguet – May 23, 2025

Venezuelans head to elections on May 25. A united Chavismo will face a divided opposition, amidst accusations of an alleged violent plan to boycott the elections.

On May 25, Venezuelans will once again go to the polls to elect:

285 deputies to the National Assembly
24 governors
260 regional legislators
According to data from the National Electoral Council, close to 6,000 people are running for different popularly elected positions from 36 different political parties.

The government trusts in its supporters
The ruling party, the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), has closed ranks around the Great Patriotic Pole, a coalition of 14 political parties, to offer single candidacies and thus avoid dividing the vote that supports or sympathizes with the political project that has been developing since the beginning of the 21st century, the Bolivarian Revolution.

The President of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, said that the great challenge for the Chavista candidates will be: “Connecting with grassroots popular power, reaching out to the people, in order to plan this great new era.”

For his part, Jorge Rodríguez, current President of the Legislative (and historic leader of the PSUV), said:“We are giving our all to win 24 governorships and consolidate a clear parliamentary majority. What we are sure of is that we will win again.”

A divided Venezuelan right-wing
On the other hand, the opposition is divided. The right wing, grouped around María Corina Machado, called on supporters to not go to the electoral precincts in a plan to boycott the elections. They also did not present candidates. In this way, the opposition hopes to delegitimize Chavismo’s probable victory.

However, a sector of the right has decided to participate in the regional and legislative elections, despite condemnation from Machado and former presidential candidate Edmundo González. Parties such as A New Time (UNT) and the Democratic Alliance coalition, which includes more than 20 opposition parties and movements, have called their voters to participate in the May 25 elections.

Probably the most recognized politician backing the approach of participation in the upcoming elections is Henrique Capriles, former presidential candidate and former governor of the State of Miranda, one of the main political cadres of the opposition.

In an interview with El País, Capriles stated: “The opposition has already used abstention as a way of conducting politics, and in the end, it’s nothing. What can you build from abstention? All you’re doing is making things easier for the Government… For me, politics is action and abstention is inaction.”

Regarding this change in strategy from a sector of the opposition, Chilean journalist Pablo Jofre Leal says: “Capriles is part of the so-called Network Decide (Citizen Defense of Democracy) presented on April 2, 2025, which according to his own words ‘marks a strategic change of a sector of the Venezuelan opposition by prioritizing electoral participation as a tool of democratic resistance, while rejecting international economic sanctions and secondary tariffs linked to Venezuela’. Accompanying Capriles in this Network are politicians considered ‘moderates’ (ambiguous term in political matters) such as Jesús ‘Chuo’ Torrealba, Henri Falcón, Tomás Guanipa, Andrés Caleca, and Vladimir Villegas, among others.”

He added that former presidential candidate Manuel Rosales, current governor of Zulia, and Antonio Ecarri should also be included among this democratic tendency of the opposition.



Maduro denounced a violent plan to sabotage the elections
On May 19, the Executive denounced that it had uncovered an alleged plan to attack the population with bombs and other terrorist tactics during the May 25 elections. In this sense, the government announced the arrest of 38 persons (21 Venezuelans and 17 foreigners) who, according to Venezuelan intelligence, were planning to violently sabotage the elections. They also confirmed the seizure of cell phones that contain valuable information on the origin and financing of these plans.

Maduro denounced that the Albanian mafia and groups of Colombian drug traffickers were behind the plan to carry out bombings in Venezuelan territory. “The Albanian mafia that governs Ecuador sent part of its trained mercenaries to plant bombs in Venezuela. They have been captured,” stated Maduro in a televised speech.

Suspension of flights between Colombia and Venezuela
In connection with the alleged terrorist plans, Vice President Diosdado Cabello announced that the cancellation of all flights from Colombia has been ordered “until further notice.” In this way, the government intends to stop the entry of people who are allegedly linked to potential attacks.

Cabello said “[that the objective of the alleged mercenaries] was to generate attacks with explosives against embassies, hospitals, public service centers, and government personalities.” He further stated that these acts had the support of certain ultra-right sectors: “They want to present that in Venezuela there are no conditions for elections, but the National Electoral Council has complied with the schedule. The Republic Plan is already activated to guarantee security.”

On his part, the Venezuelan President said that he foresees a peaceful election day despite the alleged terrorist plans: “Vote yes, no violence. No one can take away the right of the people to elect, to vote, to participate, to have their authorities,” stated Maduro.

Historic elections in the Essequibo
The election will also be historic because for the first time a governor, eight deputies to the Legislative, and seven members of the regional legislative council will be elected to represent the Essequibo, a rich, 160,000 square kilometers area disputed between the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and the Cooperative Republic of Guyana.

The elections have caused controversy in Guyana, where President Irfaan Ali affirmed that he will do everything possible to uphold the integrity of a territory they claim as their own. However, for several decades, Venezuela has also claimed the territory as an indivisible part of its nation. It is now considered Venezuela’s 24th state. However, the election will not be held in the disputed territory, so it would be extremely unlikely for there to be incidents between both nations on that day, although the Guyanese government stated that it will accuse those who participate or support the Venezuelan election of treason.

In this way, a scenario emerges which appears routine on the surface, but given Venezuela’s central role in global economic and political disputes, becomesa geopolitical arena constantly poised for internal and external tensions. The resolution of these tensions will likely depend on the political capacity of its members to overcome differences and thus gain ground against their adversaries.

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Venezuela: GPP Secures Overwhelming Majority in National Assembly and Governorships in Legislative and Regional Elections



May 26, 2025 Hour: 12:52 am

Gran Polo Patriótico (Great Patriotic Pole, GPP) achieves a decisive victory in Venezuela’s May 25, 2025 elections, capturing 82% of the National Assembly seats and 23 of 24 governorships, reaffirming popular sovereignty and democracy.

In a historic electoral day on May 25, 2025, the Venezuelan people gave a resounding endorsement to the Bolivarian project and national sovereignty, expressed in the Great Patriotic Pole’s (GPP) sweeping victory in legislative and regional elections.

With a participation rate of 42.63%, according to official data from the National Electoral Council (CNE), the GPP secured 82.68% of the votes for the National Assembly and 23 of the 24 governorships contested, consolidating a strong majority that will allow continued strengthening of participatory and protagonistic democracy.

Peaceful and Plural Participation in an Exemplary Process

CNE President Elvis Amoroso highlighted that the elections were conducted peacefully and without incidents, thanks to the commitment of the Venezuelan people and the deployment of Operation Republic, which guaranteed security and transparency in more than 15,700 polling centers.

Over 6,600 candidates from 54 political organizations participated in this process, which renewed 285 deputies, 260 regional legislators, and 24 governors, including for the first time representatives from the Guayana Esequiba state, reaffirming the inclusiveness and plurality of Venezuela’s electoral system.

The text reads :The Great Patriotic Pole (Gran Polo Patriótico, GPP) achieved a resounding victory in Venezuela’s regional and legislative elections, obtaining 82.68% of the valid votes for deputies on the national list, according to official results announced by the National Electoral Council (CNE).

Chavista Leaders Celebrate the Victory of Peace and Democracy

President Nicolás Maduro, after casting his vote, stated that the elections “defeated violence and fascism” and reaffirmed Venezuela’s commitment to peace and sovereignty. Jorge Rodríguez, head of the VEN25+ campaign command, described the day as a “victory of peace” and a triumph for Venezuelan democracy, noting that “with the power of the vote, Venezuela has buried fascism and reaffirmed its path toward social justice and popular inclusion.”

Elvis Amoroso expressed “deep pride” in the organization and transparency of the electoral process, emphasizing that despite political tensions and international pressures, Venezuela demonstrated it has “the best electoral system in the world”.

With more than 5.5 million valid votes cast, the GPP received 4,553,484 votes, securing 40 of the 50 seats contested on the national lists, thus consolidating its parliamentary dominance for the next legislative period. Amoroso also thanked CNE officials, the Bolivarian National Armed Forces, and international observers who accompanied the process.

This electoral victory of the Great Patriotic Pole represents a decisive step to consolidate participatory democracy and national sovereignty in Venezuela, reaffirming popular leadership and the continuity of the Bolivarian project in the face of external threats and destabilization attempts.

The text reads: #LIVE | CNE Rector Carlos Quintero: Mérida state records 31.93% turnout, United Socialist Party of Venezuela candidate Arnaldo Javier Sánchez Pérez receives a total of 110,161 votes, corresponding to 80.89% of the votes.

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Venezuelan Foreign Minister Yván Gil Highlights Historic and Peaceful Elections on May 25


Venezuela’s revolutionary democracy shines in historic May 25 elections: statements from the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Venezuela, Yván Gil.Photo: Telegram / @yvangil.


May 25, 2025 Hour: 7:11 pm

On May 25, Venezuelan Foreign Minister Yván Gil praised the revolutionary democracy and peaceful electoral process, emphasizing the unprecedented inclusion of the Guayana Esequiba territory,rightfully Venezuelan land,in the elections, marking a milestone for popular power and sovereignty.

On May 25, 2025, Venezuela once again demonstrated the strength of its revolutionary democracy, as millions of citizens exercised their constitutional right to vote in a peaceful and well-organized electoral process.

Foreign Minister Yván Gil highlighted the significance of this day, not only for its tranquility and broad participation but also for the historic election of representatives from the the territory of Guayana Esequiba ,rightfully claimed by Venezuela, a milestone in Venezuela’s ongoing struggle for sovereignty.

A Peaceful and Inclusive Electoral Process

Minister Gil praised the flawless deployment of the Plan República, which ensured security and order throughout the country. He emphasized the plurality of the process and the harmony between the electoral authorities and the people, with over 50 political parties, movements, and organizations presenting candidates.

“This is not just another election,” Gil stated, “it is a robust, dynamic democracy working to give more power to the people.” The peaceful atmosphere and active participation reflected the Bolivarian government’s commitment to empowering popular sovereignty.

For the first time in Venezuelan history, the elections included the selection of deputies, governors, and legislative council members to represent the Guayana Esequiba territory , rightfully Venezuelan land, following the popular mandate from the December 2023 referendum.

The text reads: We have witnessed elections filled with peace, joy, and tranquility, the result of President Nicolás Maduro’s efforts to guarantee the voting rights of all Venezuelan men and women. This democratic act reflects the plurality of options in Venezuela, with more than 50 political parties and movements nominating candidates. Furthermore, today, with the election of authorities for the Guayana Esequiba, we are fulfilling the popular mandate of the 2023 referendum.

Gil described this as a cause for celebration and a reaffirmation of Venezuela’s rightful claim over the disputed region. This unprecedented step strengthens Venezuela’s position against imperialist attempts to undermine its territorial integrity.

Gil also addressed recent foreign criticisms, reaffirming Venezuela’s peaceful and constitutional approach to its electoral and territorial matters. He condemned attempts by imperialist forces to interfere in Venezuela’s internal affairs, highlighting the unity and determination of the Venezuelan people to defend their sovereignty.

The May 25 elections stand as a testament to the resilience of the Bolivarian Revolution and its ongoing mission to deepen democracy and social justice.

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Strike at the Helm: The First Ministerial Meeting of the New Cycle of the Bolivarian Revolution
Posted by Internationalist 360° on May 31, 2025


Mural of Chávez in Caracas. (Univision)

Introduction

On October 7th, 2012, after hearing of his victory as the nation‘s candidate with 56 percent of the vote, President Hugo Chávez Frias announced from a balcony in his hometown that a new cycle was beginning the very next day, October 8th.

Only a few days later, on October 20th, he headed the first meeting calling together the ministers of this new cycle, the Comandante called for a series of critiques and self-criticisms in order to expand efficiency, strengthen communal power, and further develop the National System of Public Media, among other themes regarding the construction of socialism.

This document synthesizes his words, as a tool for a debate in which we should all participate.

Miraflores Palace

Caracas, October 20th, 2012

THE NEW CYCLE OF THE TRANSITION

We are speaking, above all, on the theme of economics, we are looking over papers, documents, plans, projects, we are closing one cycle and opening up a new cycle after the Bolivarian victory on October 7th, which has broadened the political horizon as well as bringing us a popular victory, the Bolivarian victory, which guarantees our nation‘s stability.

I was reading somewhere that Venezuelan bonds have shot up. The world knows, PDVSA [Petroleum of Venezuela] now appears to be the second largest company among Latin America’s top 500, making it one of the largest in the world, a solid position, and Venezuela continues to occupy a place that it deserves. And this is only possible, and it will only be possible to continue in this direction, to open these horizons, through these steps, using these roads, in the construction of socialism.

Here I have a [book written by] István Mészáros, chapter XIX, called “The Communal system and the Law of Value.”1 There is a sentence that I underlined a while ago, I am going to read it to you, ministers and vice president, speaking of the economy, of economic development, speaking of the social impulses of the revolution: “The yardstick,” says Mészáros, “of socialist achievements is the extent to which the adopted measures and policies actively contribute to the constitution and deep-rooted consolidation of a substantively democratic…mode of overall social control and self-management.”

Therefore we arrive at the issue of democracy. Socialism is in its essence truly democratic, while, on the other hand, there is capitalism: quintessentially anti-democratic and exclusive, the imposition of capital by the capitalist elite. But socialism is none of these things, socialism liberates; socialism is democracy and democracy is socialism, in politics, the social sphere, and in economics.

Giordani also says this, in his book The Venezuelan Transition to Socialism, by our dear minister, friend and teacher, Jorge Giordani.2 Jorge speaks about some of the decisive factors in the transition: one of them is the transformation of the country’s economic base in order to make it fully and fundamentally democratic, because the economic base of a capitalist country is not democratic, it is anti-democratic, it is exclusive. That is how it generates great wealth for a minority, for the elite, the bourgeoisie, and for the big monopolies, this also how it generates poverty and squalor for the vast majority of the population.

The problem is an economic one, it is impossible to separate the social from the economic, I always give water as an example, H2O, hydrogen and oxygen, the economic and the social.

Here is the book: The Venezuelan Transition to Socialism, the conditions which guide the passage, that is to say, the transition. “When one is dealing with revolution or a productive transformation,” Giordani says, “as far as the productive transformation is bound to an accumulative model, it will be defined by five aspects:”

The modification of the productive base of the country, seeking a higher level of the democratization of economic power.
A change in the role of the State, so that the accumulative process is able to begin to achieve the fulfillment of the basic necessities of the majority of the population and the defense of its sovereignty.
The incorporation of the mechanisms of self-governed productivity at a collective level.
The use of democratic planning as a regulatory mechanism for productive relations.
Accentuating the autonomous position of the country while facing the internationalization of the capitalist system.
These are the elements which help to guide the transformation and is what we are going to be talking about today: the economy and how right now, with this new cycle starting, we must become more efficient in the revolutionary construction of a new political, economic, social, and cultural model.

This effort that we have undertaken and that we continue to take on, it is a serious one, and it must be taken even more seriously, that is what Jorge is saying: we must modify the productive base of the country, in a way that assures an economic democracy. For example, here in the Miranda Airbase, in La Carlota, a pole of scientific-technological development is taking form, and this is one of the strategic points of this theme of which we have been speaking, science and technology, independence, it is all related.

Let us recall the five major historic objectives of the Program for the Homeland that we will now begin to apply.

It is about the steps that we have taken, which is why we speak of transition, of stages. None of this existed in Venezuela and none of this would exist in Venezuela if capitalism was imposed upon us, if we converted once again into the colony that we once were. This is why the political revolution comes before the economic one. It must always be this way: first the political revolution, political liberation and then the economic revolution. We must maintain political liberation and from that point the political battle is a permanent one, the cultural battle, the social battle.

THE SOCIALIST DEMOCRACY OF THE XXI CENTURY

We are touching on the key points of this project, if we do not understand these points well enough yet decide to move forward we can do good things, however we will not be doing what is precisely necessary to leave, in a manner that is both progressive and firm, the model of capitalist exploitation behind us in order to create a new model: a socialism that is Venezuelan, Bolivarian, and of the XXI century.

It is a new cycle of the transition; the construction of socialism, of our model. We should territorialize the models. I can imagine, for example, a sector of Sarria, the Calle Real de Sarria, the buildings and the bakery, the PDVAL [Venezuelan Production and Distribution of Food] and the Farmapatria [State-run pharmacy] are new elements, like implants. Now colleagues, comrades, if this element did not form part of a systematic plan, of something new, like a network, this would be A and this would be B, this would be C, D, E, etc., and a network that works like a gigantic spiders web covering the new territory, if it didn’t work this way it would all be doomed to fail; it would be absorbed by the old system, which would swallow it up, because capitalism is an enormous amoeba, it is a monster.

I don’t say this to make you feel defeated or daunted; quite the opposite, it is so we can gather our strength when faced with the complexity of the challenge. Let us remember what happened in the Soviet Union: in the Soviet Union there was never democracy, there wasn’t socialism, it was diverted and the leaders did not realize it, or if they did realize it they were incapable of changing things and it became a beaten empire. The fault does not lie solely with Soviet Union, the blame also lies with all of the external aggressions, economic sabotage, biological and bacterial wars, bombings and explosions in the Soviet oil industry, as well as the contradictions, the divisions, the culture.

That is why the socialism of the XXI century, which has resurfaced here as if from the dead, is something new; it has to be truly new, and one of the things that is fundamentally new in our model is the democratic character, a new democratic hegemony which obliges us not to impose, but rather to convince, and that is where we are coming from: The subject of the media, communications, of our arguments, so that the whole country is aware of what we are presenting today; of how we can achieve it, of how we can make it happen.

A change in culture. An impact on a cultural level is vital for the revolutionary process and for the construction of a XXI century socialist democracy in Venezuela.

A SELF-CRITICISM WHICH CLARIFIES

Now the self-criticism; in many occasions I have insisted on this, I read and read, and this is very nice and well done, I don’t doubt it, but where is the commune? Maybe the commune is only for the Ministry of the Communes? I have thought about this often, I am going to have to eliminate the Ministry of the Communes. Why? Because many people think that this is the Ministry that deals with the communes.

This is a very serious error that we are committing. We will not comment on it any further. We will revise it. I have signed a decree creating something that is a superior entity to the communes. Where is this entity? It has not served its function.

Nicolás, I entrust you with this task as I would entrust my life to you: the communes, the rule of law, and the justice system.3 There is already a Law of the Communes, of communal economy. Therefore, how will we make it happen…?

I asked the same question in Ciudad Caribia: Where is the commune, no, not the commune, but the communes? Where will we create the communes, the new ones? And in Ciudad Belén, we continue to create housing, but we do not see communes anywhere, not even the spirit of the commune, which at this point is much more important than the commune itself: the cultural commune. Do you understand? Will I continue to preach in the wilderness for things like this? All of us here are a part of this, all of us, from me, the President of the Republic; here in Miraflores there should already be a commune. We all are a part of this; it is part of the soul of this project.

Self-criticism is used to clarify, not to speak empty words, as if we were to throw our criticisms into a void. It is used so we can act now, ladies and gentlemen, Ministers, the communes dictate that we search out the Law of the Communes, that we read it, and study it. Many people, I am sure, and I am not necessarily speaking about those of you here, haven’t read it, because it is believed that it isn’t important to us. Many people haven’t even read the Law of Communal Economy because they believe No, it doesn’t have anything to do with me.

You may ask, which are these so-called communes under construction? I am sure that the communes do not exist in the majority of these projects, be they small, medium, or large, that we are developing: from housing, creating new cities and centers of scientific and agricultural development, like in the Plains of Maracaibo, in the municipality of Mara, even in the state of Sucre, where the large sardine processing plant that we recently opened is located, a huge plant, even in the glass businesses that we expropriated, la Faja de Orinoco [the Orinoco Belt], the communes do not exist. Where will we search for them, on the moon? Or on Jupiter?

Friends, permit me to be as tough as I can be, and as I should be, regarding the new self-criticism on this theme. Rafael Ramírez, for example, should already have around 20 communes in the PDVSA, in the Faja de Orinoco, but the PDVSA doesn’t believe that they should have anything to do with them. The problem is a cultural one, friends. And I mention PDVSA in full recognition of this great industry.

The communes. Once I actually had Carmen Meléndez make, I don’t remember how many, copies of Mao Zedong’s writings on communes from his little red book, now I want to make 30 more copies to give, once again, to each minister. It seems as if no one ever read them since I never even received one page of commentary regarding them.

Self-criticism: either independence or nothing, either the commune or nothing. Or what exactly is it that we are doing here? This is where we need the Mission of Culture, to concentrate its fire, like artillery.

The micro-missions, the spirit of the micro-missions is to concentrate that fire. Someone tell me, how many Ministers, you my dear friends, have gone to sleep in a neighborhood for three days; tell me who has done so. I can’t set the example, as much as I would like to, I’m sorry but I can’t, but you could go there, to Caño Cuibarro to see what is happening with the Cuiba Indian’s project, and you could stay there three days, or scatter yourselves around Sarría. A minister and a vice-minister could be there, walking around, living there for a few days or they could go house to house, this doesn’t only have to take place during an electoral campaign, going street corner to street corner. Haven’t you seen the amount of paper that I am bombarded with, that fall in my truck everywhere I go? Now they throw the paper with rocks, so that it reaches me, or with an arrow, once there was an arrow with a piece of paper on the tip: “Chávez help me…” and on and on.

So, the commune, popular power, does not come from Miraflores nor does it come from office of the Ministry. This is not where the problem will be solved.

We do not believe that because we are going to open the Cemento Cerro Azul factory or the industrial manufacturing equipment factory in Guanare, or the computer factory, or the satellite factory, or this factory or the other that we have just finished, no; nor because we have nationalized the cement industry….

Be careful, if we are unable to realize this, we are done for, and not only are we done for, but we will be the ruin of this project. Those of us here, those present, face a historical responsibility. Each time you go to the bathroom, or wherever there is a mirror, look at yourselves in the face, look yourselves in your eyes. I will be the first to do it.

SOCIALISM CAN NOT BE MADE BY DECREE

Factories constructed with capitalist ends carry the indelible mark of their “operating system,” the division of the social hierarchies of work from which they were built. A productive system which aims to activate the full participation of the associated producers, the workers, requires a multiplicity of “parallel” producers, who are coordinated in a suitable way, as if in a corresponding operating system that is radically different to the centrally operated alternative of the capitalist driven economy or its well-known post-capitalist varieties which are presented deceitfully as “planning.”

How many hours of study, of reading, of reflection, do we dedicate ourselves to each day? It is necessary, I would say, above all of our other obligations, to dedicate ourselves many hours a day because we are talking about elements that are vital for this project. Sometimes we think that everything should be controlled from Caracas. No! It is about creating, as Mészáros says, a coordinated combination of parallel systems and from there the regionalization, the initiative districts. But we still haven’t created a single one, and we have the law, we have our decree, but it was just a decree, and inside the initiative districts are the communes.

Occasionally we can fall into the illusion that by calling something a certain name, I am against calling everything “socialist,” socialist stadium, socialist avenue, what a socialist avenue, kid! This is suspicious. Somebody over there wanted to call an avenue “socialist,” socialist bakery, socialist Miraflores. This is suspect because one could be led to believe that okay, it’s done, we called it socialist, we’re all done; change the name and that’s it.

It’s like the joke of the capybara and the Indians. A Spanish priest arrives, this was years ago, during holy week, traveling along the plains through Indian lands so he comes to an indigenous town and the Indians are there, dancing and everything, they have their ways of celebrating, their own gods, their customs, their food; so the priest tells them, “You can’t eat pork during holy week. On Holy Thursday you have to eat fish or capybara”. Because there was a big fat pig there and the priest sensed what was waiting for him, so he asks: “Do you understand?” “Yes we understand”. “You can’t eat pork or meat from livestock,” The priest, before leaving, brings them to the river to baptize them and he asks: “What are your names?” The Indian was named Caribay. “No, no, what is this Caribay? Your name is Juana. We must give people Christian names”.

“And you what is your name? Another Indian name, Guaicaipuro. “No, what is this give me a break Guaicaipuro, your name will be Nicolás.” He left and when he came back on Holy Thursday, he saw that the Indians were dancing and roasting a pig: “How is it possible that you are going to eat this pig? I told you that you cannot eat pork” So one of the Cacique [Indians] says: “No, we solved the problem. We baptized the pig and named it capybara.”

They changed its name, they brought it to the river, they put it into the water, “Pig, your name is capybara,” and they ate the pig.

This is how we are with socialism: “You are called socialism, kid,” but you continue being a pig deep down. I make these remarks, a product of my reflections, after some study and a comparison with reality.

WE MUST IMPLANT SOCIAL PROPERTY WITH THE SPIRIT OF SOCIALISM

Look at this view. This is the Mene Grande plant. Another plant could fit here. It must be seen what can be produced in the surrounding land, Satellite Miranda, it seemed useless, just jungle and snakes. Each factory that we create should be able to start producing the day it is opened, guava in this case, as an example; does this make sense? The plant should be on land that is unproductive, probably national land, a thousand hectares of social property that can coexist with small property.

We have to associate ourselves with the small producers, but we must implant social property with the spirit of socialism, all down the line, from agricultural work, where mangoes are grown, guava, strawberries, to the systems of distribution and consumption of the local producers.

We have done all of this in the interests of the transition; however we should not lose sight, friends, of the core part of this project: we mustn’t continue opening factories that are like an island, surrounded by the sea of capitalism, because the sea will swallow it up.

The same thing happens with housing. Where are the productive zones in Ciudad Caribia? We have created plenty of housing there, but I don’t see the industrial zone. And I remember having said years ago, when we started there, we went there and we walked around: That is where El Junquito is, the sea is there, my God the night is nice and cool, great for tourism, there should already be some lodgings there.

Simón Bolívar said: “What we want will not come to us through divine intervention”. There should already be a system of hotels there, restaurants with a view of the sea. There is a magic mountain there that I call the Wall, it is the Path of the Indians. What is it that Cipriano Castro said? “It is the insolent mark of the foreigner, the insolent mark of the Spanish invader, that they could never pass through this path!” They never made it through this road.

I believe that you can even find human remains there, or that there were remains of indigenous craftwork, that is why it is called the Path of the Indians, and the other one: the Path of the Spaniards, but this was Guaicaipuro’s path, not a single Spaniard passed through there, or we can say, in respect for modern day Spain, not a single imperialist, not a single imperialist passed through.

These were the paths of Guaicaipuro, the road of heaven, it is made up of seven plateaus that can be seen clearly from above. Therefore, remember what we spoke about, look, this is really good for the cultivation of citrus, that is where citrus comes from, flowers, and they even said they would make an area for the industrial zone. Where is the industrial zone? Did you see it? Where are the industries? There aren’t any. This is Ciudad Caribia, I will be happy the day that I see some changes there.

Since the first day that we began to construct housing there we should have begun, I even said, once, Why should we wait until the housing is built, since it is a longer process? We are working on the transport and the roadways. What we are doing in Ciudad Caribia is a colossal undertaking, but for us to wait until it is all finished before we begin to plant the trees, the nurseries for the citrus fruits, flowers, urban agriculture, tubers.

Carayaca is near there, once we walked around and ended up in Carayaca, over there you arrive at the Naval School, behind it, in the patio, but as far as I know there isn’t even a hectare still there, right?

Once when I wasn’t in a big hurry I went there, via the Caracas-La Guaira highway, with entrances and roads that go both places. Go there so you can see it.

I went and came across fields of tomatoes, and a man operating a water pump. I asked him: Where do you extract the water? “Over there under the ravine, on your right as you go towards it, there is an opening there,” I saw mango groves, grafted [an agricultural process] with those really big mangoes, and a litter of chickens on a small piece of land, peppers, etc. I asked the man: Who owns all of this? “Mr. so and so.” And how much does he pay you? “Well, sometimes he pays us and sometimes he doesn’t.” See? They are exploited, on these small farms.

Recently we inaugurated the Mamera-El Junquito highway. Tell me if you have seen a farm there, a collective one. Remember it was there three years ago, and the first image that I had was what great potential, what beautiful land, what beautiful hills, what a beautiful climate. We have finished the highway and yet there is not a single productive unit there that we have created ourselves

It was our belief that the highway was the the main objective, will the railroad be our goal? Will the highway be our goal? Or, in terms of the central concept, do we change the entire geographic-human socio-territorial and cultural relation around? A change is clearly necessary, but sometimes we don’t want to understand, not just sometimes, we almost never understand it.

THE PEOPLE ARE THE OBJECTIVE

You remember, Jacqueline,4 it seems like a hundred years ago you were the president of Hidrocapital and I, watching television, saw that you were in the Cota 905 putting in water pipes, and I called you, I barely knew you, and I said: Doctor, engineer Jacqueline, what project is accompanying the main idea of the pipe? Is it just the pipe? And those shanties alongside the site, does anyone see them? Is the pipe the objective? Is the objective the oil pipeline? Or is it an instrument? Is the highway the objective? I could go on and on.

Once we came with [Ramon] Carrizales, I remember that he was the Minister of Transport and Infrastructure, we were coming from Elorza heading towards Mantecal in some helicopters and I saw that they were still working on the highways. I said, lets land there, between Mantecal and Elorza. I asked the workers: Where do you live? Mantecal, Elorza. How many of you have your own house? Almost none of them. What kind of housing do you have? A shack. I remember that I said to Carrizales: hey, it would have been great, or it would be, to make a sketch. I’m going to make another sketch. Look, this is Elorza, Mantecal and the highway, kilometers, thousands and thousands of hectares cross this highway and the result is that the very workers who are working on the highway don’t have housing.

I asked some engineers who were there: How many houses fit in a hectare? Let’s say 10 hectares, 800 houses, simple ones not buildings or anything, so taking advantage of the impulse, as they say, with the machinery used for the highway, millions of Bolivars, technicians, engineers, the very same workers who didn’t have housing could have built a residential area for themselves.

It is not the same thing to simply finish the highway, their work is over, and what awaits those workers? The majority of them end up damaging the highway so that they can return to work on the same highway, that is how they pass their lives, surrounded by land on all sides, they finish their lives without a home and they leave their children homeless. And not just homeless. I would pick up that little town of ten hectares and maybe on this side 100 more hectares, livestock, agriculture. You know the highway from the capitalist point of view, who benefits most from the highway? The large estate owner that can now ship more livestock at lower costs.

Putting your feet on the ground can be beneficial, because maybe, if you have a bicycle, an old one, you can travel by bicycle along the highway in bits and pieces to get to the next town, or you can walk along the highway, this is the benefit that having ones feet on the ground gives to those who are exploited; on the other hand someone who has a small herd of animals, a farm and a few trucks, that person will benefit a million times more than the person with their feet on the ground.

Therefore, in terms of the highway, from a traditional point of view, we are actually making the rift wider, it seems that we often don’t even realize how to find the right formula.

What I am doing is organizing my reflections so that you can make adjustments to what you are working on so that you work together and communicate as a team and we can all give everything the utmost importance, as small as it may be even if it is a little project over there in a small town in Mérida. Not just: “This is a trout farm,” What else is there? As small as it is we must give it this character.

I believe that over these years we have accumulated experience, we have created entities that did not exist before. I believe that we have ended up accumulating resources, investing resources and we will continue to do so. I think we have new codes; I believe we have a new legal framework, starting with the Constitution; we have laws for communal councils, the law for the developmental initiative districts; but those of us responsible for enforcing them haven’t paid any attention to these laws.

I hope to see answers to these reflections and to this public self-criticism that I am making.

BETTER EFFICCIENCY FOR BETTER RESULTS

And you, my dear friends, ministers, I don’t want you to work alone, you say I have the power to do what the law requires, in this there is no question. I shouldn’t have to deal with this at all, sometimes there is jealousy, and I have come across ministers or vice-ministers who get jealous.

You are all obliged to keep me informed, not to be quiet. If any of you see that within a certain ministry, or other entity, there is an exclusive clique forming, tell me because I have the power that the constitution gives me, a power that no one else has, I will shoot a missile at them, you can’t do it, but I can, and I will do it with pleasure; believe me, I will do it with pleasure.

It is sad that we stay quiet, so that I am not seen to be shoddy. We are not second grade students, nor are we in elementary school, this is the revolutionary government of Venezuela, ratified by the people two weeks ago, but also highly criticized by the people and for a reason, and these reasons are based on our lack of efficiency.

I read somewhere, and it has been mentioned before, but since there are various ministry councils, various phases, it is possible that some of you haven’t heard me say this, or maybe you understand it better than I do: a team that does not communicate, or a team that communicates badly, will not amount to much.

We need a level of communication, of coordination, a crossing, or an intersection of plans, of diagnosis, of problems, of coordinated action. It’s like a war: What would the infantry do without us, the tanks? And what would the armored division do without the infantry or the marines without the army? What does a male do alone, or a female alone, or night without day, or the root by itself, or the branches on their own? We are nothing without integrating our vision, in our work, in everything, it will be hard but we will persevere.

That is why I ask you, I ask Nicolás who will now step up to take on the role of vice president and the newly arrived Ministers as well as those who are staying, to make a bigger effort, to give a little more. I will do my part as well, I will be involved in everything.

REINFORCING THE NATIONAL PUBLIC MEDIA SYSTEM

Another criticism, and I hope that no one feels bad about it, I won’t name anyone, but recently, as always, I have been watching TV. I watch a few programs on our channel, the channel of all of Venezuela, and it seems as if we will persist in clinging to the past, giving a voice to those who barely have anything to say to the country, airing their videos. Is this the most important thing right now? And the management of the government? Why not have programs with workers? Where we can voice our self-criticisms, we should not be afraid to criticize, nor to self-criticize. We need it, it gives us nourishment.

I imagine, for example, my dear Vanessa in the Copelia factory, speaking at length with experts, dedicating an hour to them. I imagine my dear Mario over there in the Cerro Azul plant, even if it is eleven at night it doesn’t matter, interviewing workers, walking around the factory, looking at the cement, being shown around.

Four hours there on one Saturday isn’t enough. This must be a systematic plan, permanent, continuous, etc.

And not just on channel eight, no, on every channel. I often watch Tves, there are good documentaries, and Vive as well; but I have the impression that each channel does its own thing. We don’t really have, although we like to talk about it, a National Public Media System, we don’t.

Ernesto, convert yourself into the leader of this system.5 Create it, we will create it together, it will include, finally, as a system, connectivity with other systems, or subsystems, community media, popular media. It’s like the story I told you of the bugle and the horse: Local television, local newspapers, international news, Telesur; each one is on its own. This is the truth.

I am sure that this is how it is. There isn’t a National Public Media System, we don’t have one. We will create it; we have the instruments to do so. What we lack is the will and, maybe, obviously, the capacity. If we take the risk we will do it. It is necessary.

Translated by Jamie Weiss

Notes

1.↩István Mészáros, Más alla del capital: Hacia una teoría de la transición (Caracas: Vadell Hermanos, 2001) [the English edition is Beyond Capital (New York: Monthly Review Press, 1995)].
2.↩Jorge Giordani, La transición venezolana al socialism [The Venezuelan Transition to Socialism] (Caracas: Hermanos Vadell, 2001).
3.↩[Nicolás] Madero, at that time recently named Vice President of the Republic.
4.↩Jacqueline Farías, Head of Government of the Venezuelan Capital District.
5.↩Ernesto Villegas, named Minister of Popular Power for Communication and Information.
Originally published: Monthly Review on April 1, 2015 (more by Monthly Review)

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They will never steal our future again

The Cayapo

June 2, 2025 , 3:20 pm .



1. It may not seem like it, but the buttocks do have something to do with eyelashes.
Despite enjoying strong popular support in the early years of their administration, the AD and COPEI parties had to murder 11,000 people to retain state power. They never achieved political stability in Venezuela, while also deteriorating as a governing option. Their leftist opponents never had a defined national plan and, in less than ten years, were quickly subjugated through murder, forced disappearances, imprisonment, torture, exile, and the recruitment of high-ranking officials into the system.

They never suffered sanctions, harassment, or economic blockades, and they always enjoyed the support of the OAS, the UN, and other institutions of global liberalism. But fundamentally, they enjoyed the backing of the largest and most powerful military, political, cultural, industrial, and ideological machinery the world has ever seen. We are talking about human capitalism administered in the United States of America and Europe.

The Adecos and Copeyanos never had a vision of the country, but rather to serve the big oil companies like their politicians in office.

2. It is convenient for human-capitalism that PDVSA is its dog
PDVSA is a bourgeois industrial construct. It was conceived and built to solve problems for the large transnational oil companies. It was the ideal instrument to continue the plundering of Venezuela's oil by the large transnational corporations, who had already mapped out the distribution plan. That is the reason for 1989, and for the civil war tattooed on our foreheads that the government has been trying to avoid by all means since February 4, 1992.

Some of the managers and technocrats working at PDVSA would like to work for ExxonMobil, Chevron, or any other transnational corporation. They feel ashamed of working for PDVSA. Politically and emotionally, they don't feel part of a company that supports a country in need of construction. Instead, they continue to promote meritocracy and technocracy, while, out of apathy and purely individualistic self-interest, they abandon their commitment to the country and take positions in favor of transnational corporations.

Example one: Plant workers know, long before the oil strike, that they can repair valves, that they don't need to go to Siemens to get them working, and there's no way the techno-merit-bureaucrats can understand this.

There are thousands of examples of the need to look at ourselves and build ourselves from within, abandoning servility to transnational corporations.

All the managements known to date at PDVSA have never had a conception of the country, which is why they ignore the history of those who built PDVSA, why they built it, what the objectives of those who built it were, the conversion, nationalization, the opening of the oil industry, and Chávez's decision to turn PDVSA into a national company; truly nationalize oil, because their only interest is to serve as managers for the large transnational oil companies, which is why they don't care that these companies are completely destroying PDVSA. Did you see that the asshole has something to do with the eyelashes?

This brings us to the question of whether we are a country. What country are we, what do we depend on, what do we have, how do universities function, what professionals do they train, what are unions, parties, artists, and where are the efforts being made by the political-military leadership, accompanied by a sensitive population, to advance the idea proposed by Chávez—the possibility of building a country? To prevent it from being diluted by the decisions of bureaucrats, technocrats, meritocrats, political climbers, acrobats who don't have a single idea half-cooked in their brains?

It's worth conducting a serious study, discussing, and conversing; we are in a complicated, difficult time, in the midst of an international war, where the masters are seeking to plunge us into a civil war in Venezuela, destroy the state and the territory, and generate massive chaos, all in order to take away our oil, gas, and coltan. We can't avoid this simply with "Long live the homeland, long live socialism, homeland or death, we will win."

It's about building a country, and that requires a political decision to define who we are, where we're going if we go, where we're planted, if we want to put down roots, how we build ourselves, who opposes us, because we must stop being imitators of copycats, waiting for someone to do something abroad so we can applaud them as saffrons; to look at ourselves, to seek ourselves out, to build ourselves internally: that's what being Venezuelan is all about, and in that, PDVSA, oil, iron, gold, coltan, and the people play a fundamental role. We must have definitions.

If we don't know who we are, we can't construct ourselves as another cultural possibility. We can't depend on elections, or on whether oil became cheap or expensive, or on gold, coltan, or water; on whether we are invaded or not; because we have no control over that. The bourgeoisie can tolerate us today, as long as it's weak, but if the bourgeoisie regains its strength, it will come at us with everything it has to offer and will not forgive us for having a Constitution, a party, or for being good people. It has already built a case against us: we are a dictatorship, a monster, bleeding and murdering a country. That narrative is already out in the streets, and they repeat it every day on their social media. We, the enslaved Venezuelans who live here in this territory, need to truly define that situation.

We must know that they will never, ever, ever accept us because we defend and exercise human rights, nor because we vote and are democratic. Today they tolerate us because they are weak, not because we have oil, gold, or the strength to negotiate, no. It's because we are willing to die with our boots on, and even in that weakness, they have tried to invade us, murder us, and rob us.

Democracy and its manipulation are their game; everyone must understand that they didn't create democracy so we slaves could play truco at their gambling tables, but rather to divide us up as spoils. At their table, we are nothing more than the kernels of corn they divide up.

Democracy is sold as collective participation in a country's decisions and decisions, but democracy was invented by the owners and exercised through shares, in companies. Democracy is applied when they go to elect the president, the owner of a company; the shareholders vote; there may be ten million shareholders, but if one has 50.01 percent of the shares, he wins that election; a million may have voted against, but the man has 50.05 percent in shares, he's the winner, and no one disputes it or claims fraud: that's pristine, crystal-clear, like spring water. Democracy was invented by criminals, swindlers, charlatans, businessmen, thieves, invaders, looters, pirates, scamps, buccaneers, and other libertarians who paid lawyers, litigators, and swindlers of every kind to polish and embellish the tragedy.

Democracy was invented on a pirate ship under the premise of equality, liberty, and fraternity among those who shared the loot. It was a libertarian act that could be practiced where everyone knew they were all criminals and thieves, looters, and murderers; no one doubted their society, no one used the disguise of a pope, priest, or king to steal; there the beautiful and democratic bourgeois society was born.

We slaves cannot play that lottery of democracy permanently, because we did not invent democracy, they did it to distribute it to the slaves, which is absolutely different, because democracy is theirs, politics is theirs, philosophy is theirs, money is theirs, the production apparatus is theirs, and human rights are theirs, not us slaves.

From then on, they left us this tragedy as an illusion, a chimera, a tentative ...

3. Homeland-republic
A romantic idea embedded in the minds of the needy, born of rape, crime, and plunder, when the bourgeoisie defeated the clergy and divided up Europe and its overseas territories, establishing the god of capitalism and humanism, which ultimately reorganized the world in its own image. From then on, the colonial banner of death and pain, which bleeds the world dry in the name of opulence.

Homeland-republic, a stake brought in by the packet, driven into the heart of these lands as a panacea for all the ills of the mines. A puppet-like structure, which they could dominate at will from across the seas, like the new and dazzling glass beads; freedom, democracy, equality, progress, civilization, distinctive signs of humanism. A guiding light in the mine, from where wealth is transferred to the safe harbor of imperial capitalism.

A navigating homeland-republic that will never reach a good or bad port, always shipwrecked, adrift, in an imposed crisis, cyclically ruining, starving, massacring, and every time a port is foreshadowed, humanism changes the rules of the game; and once again to the great storms, to abandonment, rootless, always fearful that the great squalls will capsize it, to the "if I've seen you, I don't remember you."

A homeland-republic that watches helplessly as capitalism uproots its children from the fertile land, establishing its powerful dominion of polluting factories for the benefit of gamblers and swindlers, disguised as suitors, lying with the words "I'm dying for your love" (I'm sad for your love). A homeland-republic, imprisoned, nevertheless, a refuge for abandoned and lonely migrants of the heart, arriving from other lands. A homeland in pain, excessively wounded, and without eyes to weep for its pain, waiting for a spell or a roll of the dice to cure its absence of affection, while it fills itself with impoverished children.

Homeland-republic against which they always played with marked cards, a toy of whim, with the promise of eternal tenderness, to which they offered the immeasurable, that of unjust scolding, that of eternal spite, paid with betrayal, to which they made it believe that a rusty and twisted crown, thirsty for blood-wealth, was their distant motherland, which would always take care of them.

Homeland-republic, orphaned without affection, mourning absences on dull afternoons, with people without a foothold to whom to truly express their I love yous, and punished by hunger, fear, and ignorance by sincere feelings, always dazzled by the stranger who passes by, I leave in the dawning of the sun; homeland-republic, which, despite all this, does not allow itself to be cornered even when forced, and always shows its defiance. Homeland-republic, gentle, sweet, and bitter, which does not yet know what its interests are, what I am and what I am good for.

A homeland-republic with grandparents, like parents and children, in self-interested disrepute; a homeland-republic without belonging to itself, abandoned and without control over its ups and downs; a homeland-republic without authentic codes and keys; a homeland-republic that everyone wants to swallow like an insect; a homeland-republic that cannot have any government it wants, because foreign powers and domestic money-grubbers oppose it with all their weapons and tricks.

A homeland-republic taking careful steps to avoid being caught by power, a homeland-republic threatened and entangled in a foreign skein, forced to comply with strange codes it doesn't know how to unravel and undo. A homeland-republic invited like Cinderella to watch its wealth being eaten at the banquets of its owners, always yearning for a crumb of investment to alleviate its misery.

A homeland-republic, always imitating, from its misery, like a traveling circus, the pageantry and paraphernalia of its foreign owners; a homeland-republic that we are ashamed to name by its own name; a homeland-republic that we can sweep, paint, and repair, but never demolish, and build in our own image and likeness, from original and gleaming foundations, in accordance with the time, space, and needs of the people.

Homeland-republic crammed into buildings, housing developments, neighborhoods, and hamlets in a haphazard architecture, on the sides of roads and highways, hills and mogotes of constrained life, around factories, producing and watching wealth pass by in foreign directions.

Homeland-republic, orphaned without affection, with three-faced lovers, always suspecting deception. She of endless tears, open chest, wounded heart, with thorn-like pains in her throat. Homeland-republic, of incurable wounds from misunderstood loves, offered and unfulfilled, with self-sacrificing suitors, but paid for with infamous betrayals and starving affections.

A passing homeland-republic on dusty roads, seeking happiness and affection in casual adventures and bets that end in pain, suffering, and martyrdom, always putting its life in the hands of fate, gambling its future with cards, betting everything on Rosalinda in the mole, to see if chance will bring about a luminous dawn.

A homeland-republic of exotic knowledge that sucks the life out of it, always ruminating on its misfortunes for the satisfaction of foreign vampires aided by painless local dollar-suckers. A homeland-republic hated and feared, because perhaps there will come a day when its invisible, multicolored inhabitants, driven by misfortune, will make a name for themselves.

Dark and luminous homeland-republic, beautiful or disfigured, comfortable and uncomfortable, a nuisance from which I would go too far, because I don't know who I am, where I belong, or who I embrace.

Homeland-republic, a haven of my beloved adoration, which I can kick whenever I want because it belongs to me, for being so cheeky. Homeland-republic that gave birth through the lid of its belly or because it's so loving, homeland-republic of no one and with everyone.

A homeland-republic with the hypocritical love of investors and tourists. A homeland-republic always in spite, between medicine cabinets and brothels, buying affection, salt, and water. A homeland-republic denied, discarded, and ignored by its aspiring children who, not valuing it, sell it like a common commodity.

A homeland-republic sold and resold by pimps and fake lovers. A homeland-republic with children dazzled by the media, networks, artificial intelligence, and new technological advances, who will instill in us dreams of other places, and like ancient glass beads, will bring us to the feet of the master.

Homeland-republic, adolescent girl, daughter of rape and lust, sometimes abandoned or taken in, according to foreign interests, precious female and bandit who marches to war with her offspring; amid storms, calms, joys, and sorrows, to free herself from foreign raiders. Homeland-republic, daughter of history and attributed lies, through no fault of her own, with the law of a life of disgrace imposed upon her by those in power.

A homeland-republic of long, pain-destroying revelry; a homeland-republic of furtive, light, and contradictory encounters, with lovers eager to sow and nurture their principles for an independent future.

A cursed or blessed homeland-republic, a homeland-republic that occasionally spills on the blood of its children, a loving and hated homeland-republic, a homeland-republic in misery and opulence, where foreigners rule through their economic policies and market controls from abroad; a homeland-republic where investors murder true lovers and nurse stateless children. A homeland-republic where we are oil but we don't set the prices, and if Chávez tries, he's murdered.

Homeland-republic, today with its enslaved children in contradiction, asking: When will there be a people-land for what is different, when will there be a territory for founding an original, independent culture? Where people are not ashamed of who they are, who do not deny their origins, who do not sell out, who do not rent out, and where with their efforts we can all put down roots so that one day no one will crush our pride. When will there be a strong and friendly cultural amalgamation, one that knows affection and where the mother-root in the heart deeply aches?

We no longer need that homeland-republic, a vulgar copy of the paterfamilias , neither that of Roman law nor that of Greek philosophy. No more homeland-republic of Westphalia, homeland-republic of criminal and thieving owners, homeland-republic of liberals, libertarians, and neoliberals, globalized or neo-globalized, of false rights. A dictatorial homeland-republic, imposed on the entire world by means of myths and missiles. No more homeland-republic at the command of capitalism, which lives off the blood and energy of the people.

We do not demand a homeland-republic of imitation mines, of coats of arms, flags, anthems, ways, customs, and traditions that subjugate us; we do not aspire to a homeland-republic in the air like Ada Luz's house. We aspire to a people-land with their feet firmly on the ground, alive, juicy, like a ripe mango dripping in the hands of children, thinking, in cerebral contradiction with affections always on the surface, with our hearts in our hands, a people-land like Chávez, to consecrate ourselves wholeheartedly, without doubt.

Never again will there be a homeland-republic where the leading poets and artists have foreign names, words, and codes. Never again will there be a homeland-republic of intellectuals who deny and compare us with our inferiority. Never again will there be a homeland-republic of politicians, businessmen, professionals, philanderers, athletes, and ministers, of egos who deny origins and worship the eccentric. A brutal example of what the future should not be.

Now, here we are, awake in these lands. Now we are slaves in contradiction, fully grasping the possibility of the original, the different, in the junction of people and land.

From now on, a terrestrial guide, a flesh-and-blood figure singing from the depths, the need for sowing that makes us roots, a strong tree, an indissoluble connection to the four winds, and an urgent task: building the future that no one else should steal. He who bequeathed us his testament-verse-detachment when he said:

“I would go for a walk… to explore those savannas that I carry in my soul… to feel the roar of the immortal Apure River… I would go to Elorza, I would go to the Arauca… sisters, brothers, I would go there to the Caribe canal, to the savannas of Alcornocal and beyond, to the Capanaparo River, I would go to Carabalí to Barranco, Yopal and beyond… If I had shared the same fate as Lorenzo Barquero… Who was swallowed by the savannah… To stay in the box of the Apure Arauca, until time dries you up and you become a clod and you become earth and you become the water of this savannah, I would say yes, yes, and a thousand times yes, because I love this land.”



People-land, thinking with this commitment, build the possible attachment, where the stateless are a distant memory, like a valley no one wants to feel again. Thinking people for people, where the individual ego doesn't sicken the mind and body for its own satisfaction. Planning a future where life isn't a war target, where the accumulation of death doesn't overshadow the neighborhood.

A people-land where the bossy language of masters and their powerful codes are no longer the storm imposed like a enslaving tattoo. A people-land with an open heart that lives and receives in joy. A people-land that does not yearn for fantasies but plans to sow and bear juicy fruits and healthy seeds to reproduce as life for life, sustained in the ever-new and changing reality, a people-land-life, whose future will never again be stolen.

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Venezuela Reports First Arrest of a Tren de Aragua Member Deported from US
June 10, 2025


Venezuelan migrants stranded at the US–Mexico border in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. Photo: Alejandro Cegarra/file photo.

Caracas (OrinocoTribune.com)—Agents from Venezuela’s Scientific, Penal, and Criminal Investigation Corps (CICPC), assigned to Interpol’s International Police Investigations Directorate, arrested Carlos Cecilio Ariza Danieles, 32, alias Macaco, identified as a member of the Ttren de Aragua (TDA) criminal gang, Últimas Noticias reported.

This marks the first confirmed case of an actual TDA member deported by the Trump administration among 5,671 Venezuelan nationals repatriated from the US since February.

Ariza arrived on April 10 at Simón Bolívar International Airport in Maiquetía, La Guaira state, via the Plan Vuelta a la Patria (Return to the Homeland Program). He had been expelled from Honduras, which received him after his deportation from the United States.

Despite strong claims from the US about the criminal ties of many recently deported Venezuelans—including accusations of TDA membership—no documented cases supported these allegations until Ariza’s arrest.

Arrest linked to Interpol red notice
At the airport, Macaco was detained under an Interpol red notice (A-2484/2-2025) issued by Chile, where he faces charges for alleged involvement in “criminal association, extortionate kidnapping, and extortionate threats.”

The day after his arrest, Ariza appeared before Caracas’ 9th Control Court, which ordered him held in preventive detention pending extradition. The case was later referred to the Supreme Court of Justice’s Criminal Division for a ruling.

Venezuelan authorities have not explained the delay between Ariza’s April arrest and the June 10 news report by Últimas Noticias journalist Eligio Rojas. No officials had previously mentioned the case.

Alleged ties to transnational crimes
Court documents state Ariza “is part of the international criminal organization Tren de Aragua, which uses operatives to carry out crimes, including migrant smuggling, drug trafficking, homicides, extortion, and kidnappings.”

The Interpol red notice details a TDA cell that smuggled a Venezuelan family through Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia into Chile, specifically Iquique. After their arrival, the suspects—including Ariza—reportedly held the family hostage, demanding a ransom in US dollars under the threat of death.

Venezuela’s Supreme Court has given Chile 60 days to submit a formal extradition request and supporting evidence. If Chile fails to comply, the court will order Ariza’s release, per ruling No. 257.

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Some Venezuelans can't stand their rottenness.

The Cayapo

June 26, 2025 , 10:41 am .



In Los Angeles, immigrants are used by the powers that be in conflict in the United States for control of the few resources that remain in that territory, thus reinforcing the oppression of the corporations that govern that country. All the while, Venezuelan businessmen, thugs, academics with degrees earned in confetti contests, middle class, small-time actors, thieves, traffickers, and swindlers, who stink at everything and smell nothing, who in the very recent past, even on July 28, 2024, tried to overthrow the government with their riots and commandos allied with criminal gangs, with murders and arsons everywhere. These people, who can no longer bear their decay, kneel to practice the missionary position with Mr. Trump, the shame of shame. Did they find out that the gentleman was a regular on the island of Eisenstein? That, by the way, the gentleman and owner of the island was none other than a prominent agent of the Israeli Mossad, which suggests that the island was only a receptacle for gentlemen with hidden pleasures not permitted by social conventions and this space allowed them, and when they slipped they were already recorded, photographed and exposed to bribery and blackmail, which may explain the control of the corporate elites that subject Raquel and everyone else to their business or political decisions in the world.

These traitors, who have promoted coups d'état, oil strikes, attacks, attempted assassinations, who have left the country without electricity, who have motivated riots, who have committed fraud, murdered the elderly and children, who have burned people alive, who have slit people's throats, who have set fire to streets, avenues, offices, and homes, who have murdered for their own interests, who openly propose handing the country over to transnational corporations, are the same ones who applauded and rejoiced when the United States government kidnapped a Venezuelan girl and sent Venezuelan hostages to concentration camps in El Salvador run by drug trafficker Bukele. These are the same ones who rejoice over the genocide in Palestine, the destruction of Libya, Syria, Iraq, Iran, in general, over the tragedy to which human-capitalism has subjected the entire planet.

These proto-humans grieve when the government seizes drug shipments, they squeal like a pig truck when the government detains mercenaries, especially Americans. These beings who acted as coyotes selling out their own countrymen are now willing, in the most shameful attitude, to submissively prostrate themselves before their master, speculative financial capitalism; a worse appearance is impossible. A few will rot in a sack of mangoes, but we Venezuelans will make history despite the rotting of some.

But does this only happen with Venezuelans? No, sir. Let's make a list of virtuous Latin American presidents: Colombia, four consecutive presidents who are masters of cocaine production and trafficking; Noboa in Ecuador; the same in Honduras: Flores comes out with the hooks for his ties to drug trafficking; in El Salvador, Bukele is a drug trafficker; if we keep looking: Panama, Guatemala, Argentina, Chile, Peru, Brazil, Uruguay, Paraguay, Mexico: among those elites, anyone who doesn't stink stinks, and if you get caught, the one with no nose gets you. There isn't a single one who hasn't handed these countries over to the International Monetary Fund, NATO, and the World Bank, or enrolled them in plans to attack their neighbors: a fresh example: Guyana and Trinidad and Tobago.

Don't leave, there's a real mess to be made of this whole thing. Everything in the United States is deteriorating, from the president, Congress, the high court, churches, high-ranking officials, businessmen, executives, entertainment promoters, politicians of all stripes, and academics, all linked to fraud, theft, crime, pedophilia, rape, drug addiction, and profiteering; all with the same corporate agenda: to wipe out a portion of the deteriorating population, destroying the United States as a nation in order to take advantage of the few remaining resources. To achieve this, the obese, drug addicts, the insane, and the poor in general must be exterminated as a way out, so they can reap the scattered wealth. Large corporations are bankrupting rural producers and small-scale industry in order to ruin farmers and impose the new rules of the game.

The crime committed by the American elites against migrants today is not just out of hatred; it's fundamentally about wealth. They want to take everything from their homes to their pockets, and after they've done so, they'll take them back to work as slaves in conditions of abject slavery, while they promote war on a global scale to impose chaos and the new rules of speculative financial capital.

But as the propaganda says: there's more, because the rot isn't limited to North and South America and the Caribbean. Let's see, the news is leaking through all the networks and other media. Three leaders, Friedrich Merz of Germany, a luminary of bourgeois thought; Keir Starmer of England, founder of bourgeois industry; and Emmanuel Macron of France, the cradle of the bourgeois revolution; three countries, once founding powers or empires of human capitalism, are filmed hiding their cocaine butts, spoons, and other implements with which they consume the white line, on a train taking them to a meeting where they are supposedly going to contribute to peace negotiations between Russia and Ukraine. But it turns out that it's public knowledge, well-known, and widely reported that the president of Ukraine is also spiking the white line. It's clearly a drug-addicted rant against Mr. Putin, a seasoned athlete. The scoundrels of the European garden don't forgive people for wanting to live differently.

But if we continue digging, we'll realize that the cayapa is bigger; it's a scam, a gang of elites, with the chip of being humanly superior. At the global level, we have that pigeon quinchoncho is also cooked in the Crown of Spain, the accusations are three for each locha and one for a bonanza, corruption, murder of elephants, murders of immigrants, home robberies by large real estate companies and bankers, massive raids on women, and the Portuguese elites are not far behind in robbing Venezuela.

But these accusations slip into Sweden, Denmark, Holland, Switzerland, Belgium, the Vatican, among others, where like the previous ones, the trafficking of arms, drugs, arts, relics, bodies and organs of people are the arepa of every day in those human elites, humanists, superhuman, trihuman, veryhuman, very human, requetevergatarily human, civilizedly human, progressively human, prodigiously human, ecologically human, qualifiedly human, kindly human, humbly human, exclusively human, superiorly human, religiously human, starkly human, hungryly human, cowardly human, ignorantly human, amply human, shamelessly human, egoistically human, individualistically human, capitalistically human, industrially human, revolutionarily human, libertarianly human, egalitarianly human, exceptionally human, literarily human, imperially human, energetically human, potentially human, artistically human, historically human, musically human, hysterically human, scientifically human, schizophrenically human, neurotically human, unipolarly human, depressively human, anxiously human, disruptively human, psychotically human, drug-addicted human, obsessively human, compulsively human, phobically human, panic-ridden human, criminally human, cascorvaly human, pederastly human, pedophilic human, delinquently human, swindlingly human, and they can't be more human because humanism is dead and there's no one to mourn it, because all the elites are too busy trying to devour the corpse and its inheritance. Now we know for whom the bells will finally toll, garden and all.

All these elites have always been people of war, of deception, of lies, of traps. These elites have always maintained the Israeli military base in the Middle East to destroy it, to steal its resources, a barracks where all it produces are military resources and technology, intelligence agencies, advice on torture, blackmail, coups d'état, assassinations, and assassinations that they export around the world.

In Argentina, since before the dictatorships, Argentinians have been led by the bootstraps. They've had many presidents, one after another, of different ideologies: left, right, progressive; and we see the same in Brazil, Uruguay, Paraguay, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, El Salvador, Mexico, and others. In every country, we notice the same alternation of presidents, and they have inflation, poverty, and crime like Venezuela, yet they aren't blockaded, they don't have terrorist attacks, no one threatens to invade, they don't have coups d'état unless the United States instigates them, they don't have sabotage of the economy, they don't have strikes in their oil, mining, or meat industries, or whatever. We understand that they aren't solving the problem because they have no political will of their own, other than to plunder. In fact, a large percentage of these so-called rulers end up imprisoned or extradited to the United States because they not only steal from the mine, but also want to put their hands in the pockets of the same corporate owners.

Because they are regents of the respective mines, but they all obey the corporations that own these mines called countries. None of these presidents come up with a single idea that might envision the possibility of a country; that's the difference between our government and the others: in Venezuela, there are ideas that clash with the deteriorating establishment. None of the previous presidents or parties in Venezuela thought they should work to build a country distinct from the inherited mine. Instead, they simply adapted to the designs of the corporations that have had them as their domestic slaves, whether they be dictators, democrats, Christians, leftists, rightists, or centrists. None of these guys came up with the idea of ​​preparing people to build a different country, an idea with a bold plan to carry it out. They didn't have it. And that's the difference with the Chavista government, with Chávez, with Maduro, with Diosdado: there's an idea of ​​building a country, in this territory, where resources are used appropriately and where people can eat, study, build houses, clothes, shoes, and art. Beyond the fact that anyone can question the way this is done, the difference is there.

Unlike other presidents who manage mines. There's Lula in Brazil: his second term, he went through everything, and now he's more sold out to transnational corporations than any other, and worse, because now all the prestige he's earned has been thrown down the drain of history. So much swimming to die on the shore of disrepute. Like Pepe Mujica in Uruguay, sold out in the worst possible conditions, his rhetoric is that if the world has to be beautiful, green, ecological, then legalize marijuana, that everyone has rights, but in real life, in the concrete world, even in their death, they work for corporations, not for the people who live where they are presidents. So they have the same rhetoric as anyone else, or worse yet, in practice, they support the rhetoric of the corporations; they don't have a rhetoric that people can identify with or are willing to accept. In Colombia, Colombians are willing to get ahead with whatever is necessary, just like Peruvians, Ecuadorians, Argentinians, and they have shown it, they have shown that as people they are willing to fight in whatever is proposed to them, but those who are not willing are the rulers, the politicians, the businessmen, the exalted artists, the academics, the professionals who live in those territories, they have no disposition to work collectively with others to get ahead, but rather take advantage, plunder the mine like anyone else, they are foreigners living in their own land, that is what really happens, the rest is dry nonsense.

Now we look at the case of ExxonMobil, supported by Guyana and Trinidad. Guyana has 800,000 inhabitants living in desperate poverty, as does Trinidad and Tobago, with a population of approximately 1,511,155. These people are led by miserable elites, all paid by ExxonMobil, capable of sending their people to die to steal Venezuela's oil. But they're not even stealing it for themselves; they're stealing it to give it to ExxonMobil for free for a meager commission. That's the misery of the misery of humankind; it's not like they're saying, "Well, we're stealing the oil in the name of what's mine or because I'm a slave, because we're going to build a country with this oil, I don't care and I'll kill anyone for this." No, these guys are lending their territory, their people, all their resources, so that ExxonMobil can steal our oil. That's the truth about Guyana and Trinidad.

It's no wonder that as soon as Trump assumed the presidency, he immediately sent Marco Rubio to those enclaves left by the British on our borders with orders for these elites in Trinidad and Guyana to attack Venezuela. And like that, we see Colombia, Brazil, and others doing the same thing against Venezuela simply because they are paid commissioners by transnational corporations. ExxonMobil is paying journalists, lobbyists, international politicians, the UN, the OAS, everyone else, to let them steal Venezuelan oil. And what's the difference? No one is paying anyone to steal Chile's copper; the transnational corporations are stealing copper like crazy, paying whatever they want. They are stealing Brazil's oil, paying whatever they want. They are stealing Colombia's gas and cocaine, paying however they want. And likewise, Ecuadorian oil and Peruvian resources, all of them paying however they want. They're taking over the entire Amazon and they don't say anything, no one talks about it, no one stands up against those guys, there's not a single president who says, "You can't pay me the price of oil like that, you can't pay me the price of gold like that, you can't pay me the price of copper like that." No, take it, happy.

It's a stupid idea, they don't give him a prize because they take the oil like they used to do in Venezuela. Before, the gringos were celebrated here, and that's the difference between Chavismo and everything else that exists on the planet. And it's an idea, because in 2000, Chávez already had in mind that the FTAA had to be denied and he opposed the signing of the Treaty of the Americas in Quebec, and then in Argentina, he convinced Kirchner, Lula, and the others that they shouldn't sign that nonsense and they created ALBA, Petrocaribe. Because he had the idea of ​​a great strategic alliance that would keep the Caribbean and Latin America together and be able to negotiate face-to-face with large corporations, just as the Chinese, Iranians, and Russians are doing in a strategic alliance, because they see that speculative financial capitalism wants to openly rob them, and Chávez set all that example.

There were some people who opposed Chávez: professionals, intellectuals, academics, artists, politicians who are supposed to be on the left, with very well-crafted speeches, but who, when they tasted the honey of power, said: "There's nothing more to do here, we're fine, we're already getting by, why should we keep fighting, what we have to do is negotiate with the owners to stay afloat," and Chávez said no, that's not what we came here for, we came to fight for a people, for an idea, for the possibility of making a country, and all those people have left Chavismo, that entire left, all those intellectuals, all those professionals have left Chavismo to work with corporations in their various forms, and some of those who remain are lurking there, waiting for the government to make a mistake or waiting to see how they betray, waiting to see who will repay them the most for their betrayal. Many are upset because they're already settled, but like Chávez, he proposed a long-term task, not for politicians, professionals, artists, or academics to settle down. The goal is to build a country where, in the future, people won't have to think: What do I eat, what do I drink, what am I going to do with my life? Should I study or not study, work or not work? Will I have children, how will I support them, will I have a home?

The idea is to build a country where those born will be protected and educated to protect others in the future, and where the material conditions of their existence are resolved, and where they will be taught to protect those material conditions of existence, not to damage it, not to take it. But well, there's still a long way to go to reach that level of knowledge, conviction, and principles that become practical ethics, deeply rooted in our bodies, where we don't have to steal or deceive anyone, or go around wondering who I'm screwing over to make a living. But rather, things are resolved, and we also know how they were resolved, and we had to resolve them, because otherwise we had no choice.

But let's return to Los Angeles and the shame we Venezuelans feel when we see abroad how a few people born in these lands rant against the nationality. We see Venezuelans in Argentina when Milei won, "I come from the future," and now they're dedicated to working hard and twice as hard, silent, dedicating themselves to eking out a living in their happy past. Those Venezuelan influencers in Argentina and other countries are all silent, waiting nothing more than for the plane from Venezuela to arrive so they can come here and shamelessly lie, "I always wanted to come, I went for a walk." That's how they all are, begging for cocoa, but the worst is in the United States, where they're being expelled with humiliation, they're being scammed by coyotes, immigration agents, lawyers, and the only one willing to help them is, paradoxically, the government they want to overthrow.

These shameless figures who believe themselves to be masters of global political chess, in their hunger, fear, and ignorance, fail to understand that they are not even close to scoring a bingo.

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Venezuela Marches to Demand Release of Children Held in US Empire
July 11, 2025


View of a demonstration in Caracas, Venezuela, demanding the release of children forcefully separated from their parents by the US empire on July 10, 2025. Photo: Últimas Noticias.

Thousands of Venezuelans have marched in Caracas to demand the freedom of children detained in and forcefully separated from their parents by the US empire and its racist migration policies.

A movement of mothers and grandmothers, among countless relatives, carried signs with their children’s faces this Thursday, July 10, and demanded that the government of the US empire immediately return every child being held in the entity, as well as the release of the 252 compatriots kidnapped and shipped to El Salvador.

The parents told the multi-platform news channel Telesur that many have not seen their children for nearly six months, ever since they had an appointment with immigration authorities and had to sign their deportation orders after Donald Trump took office.

Camilla Fabri, head of the Return to the Homeland Program, told Telesur that there remains unwavering conviction that “everyone will return, because love never gives up. Here there are mothers, grandmothers, and relatives who are fighting for their children, grandchildren, and other family members.”

She added that the day before, while receiving flight 41 with Venezuelan migrants deported from the US entity, three mothers approached the authorities to report that their children had been left behind in the empire. “We have reached 31 cases so far, and we are working to rescue all of them. There are 31 stories, each one different from the others, all forcibly separated from their parents.”

Fabri condemned the silence of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human rights, Volker Türk, stating that “it’s incredible that the international organization and some world leaders haven’t spoken out. Why are they silent? Why haven’t they spoken out? I would ask them, what if they were your kids? What if your kids were taken away from you?”

She also emphasized that the families of the 252 Venezuelans kidnapped in El Salvador were also present at the march.

Participants carried the acronym SOS on banners, accompanied by images of the children, many of whom are in the care of foster families in the US colony, after their parents were abruptly detained and deported to Venezuela as part of Donald Trump’s anti-immigration policy.

The Venezuelan government has formally condemned the ongoing abduction of minors by the US empire, which now totals 31 separate cases, following the recent update provided by Venezuelan authorities.

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Venezuela Launches Great Mother Earth Mission to Combat Climate Crisis with Ecosocialism


Maduro calls for activating ecosocialist leadership in nationwide climate mission. Photo: Presidential Press.

July 10, 2025 Hour: 7:46 pm

President Nicolas Maduro activates the Great Mother Earth Mission, mobilizing thousands of communal councils to implement seven strategic areas aimed at ecological regeneration and climate resilience in Venezuela.

In a decisive response to the recent climate challenges facing the Andean region, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro Moros inaugurated the Great Mother Earth Mission Venezuela from Mérida’s Mukumbarí Cable Car System on July 10, 2025. This mission seeks to promote ecological recovery and resilience amid increasing climate emergencies, drawing on the legacy of Bolívar and the ecosocialist principles championed by Commander Chávez.

The mission is structured around seven key areas of work, each designed to foster sustainable development, ecological regeneration, and community empowerment. President Maduro called upon the nation’s 5,338 communal circuits and 49,000 communal councils to actively engage in refining and implementing these pillars through dialogue with universities, scientific centers, and local leaders.

1. Organizing Ecosocialism Committees in Communal Circuits

The first pillar focuses on creating Ecosocialism Committees within every communal circuit to coordinate community projects and activate ecosocialist leadership. President Maduro emphasized the urgency of confronting the new climate reality by December 19, aiming for full organization of these committees nationwide.

2. Sowing Life: Nurseries and Tree Planting

This pillar promotes the construction of nurseries and extensive tree planting campaigns to restore Venezuela’s forests and green spaces, reinforcing nature’s role in climate mitigation.

3. Territory for Life: Geographic and Environmental Planning

It includes detailed studies of geographic basins, irrigation mapping, and the establishment of national parks to protect natural resources and biodiversity.

4. Climate for Life: Science and Technology Observatories

Focused on designing strategies to monitor and control climate change impacts, this pillar supports the creation of observatories that integrate scientific research with community action.

5. Protecting Fauna and Promoting Regenerative Agriculture

This area targets the conservation of terrestrial and marine wildlife, alongside advancing regenerative agricultural practices that sustain ecosystems and local livelihoods.

6. Sanitation for Life: Environmental Hygiene and Waste Management

The sixth pillar emphasizes sanitation efforts to improve environmental hygiene across communities, focusing on waste management, pollution control, and the restoration of clean water sources to protect public health and ecosystems.

7. Production for Life: Sustainable Economic Models

The final pillar promotes sustainable production systems aligned with ecosocialist principles, encouraging local, eco-friendly industries and technologies that harmonize economic development with environmental preservation.

This mission represents Venezuela’s commitment to ecosocialism as a holistic and community-driven approach to climate change, contrasting sharply with capitalist models that prioritize profit over people and nature. By empowering grassroots organizations and integrating scientific knowledge with traditional wisdom, Venezuela aims to become a global example of ecological regeneration and social justice.

During his speech, President Maduro also expressed solidarity with the people of Texas, recently affected by devastating floods, highlighting the shared challenges posed by climate change across borders. This gesture underscores Venezuela’s role as a leader in international solidarity and environmental justice within Latin America and beyond.

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The human spawn, little human, little human

The Cayapo

July 18, 2025 , 11:24 am .


This crumbling empire, human-capitalist as a conceptual culture, is not willing to disappear without a fight (Photo: El Cayapo)

Any war, whatever it may be, that life suffers today is not individual: it is the war directed and exploited by the human-capitalist empire on the planet to maintain and increase its wealth.

Humanism was sold as the solution to all the ills produced by the religious obscurantism of the so-called Middle Ages in Europe, devastated by plague, war, ignorance, hunger, and fear, gathered in hordes of ragged wanderers, skeletons, the rubble of war and labor, who were used by human capitalism to invade the world in the name of real happiness, the concrete kind, not the one promised by heaven after death. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, humanism offered paradise on earth as its ultimate demagoguery, and the ragged Mambrú went to war, sprinkling the luminous fields of the planet with their blood, and that of those they acquired along the way, where the earthly paradise of the new owners, grouped in the bourgeois class, would be established.

From then on, lead, kicka, and kunfu against life on the planet; from mosquitoes onward, everything was a hunt, while the marquees continue to dazzle the slaves like ancient religious images and gimmicks. The earthly paradise in reality was transformed into mines that populated the world like flying saucers, multiplying the number of slaves and reducing the number of owners.

The fundamental weapon used by the powerful human-capitalist elites was not only the Remington as a rifle and literature, but fundamentally the train and the forced migrants, who since then in their stories show them to us as people in search of happiness, better paths, fulfillment of dreams, better worlds, new horizons, always chasing hope, illusion and chimera, utopia that only exists in the story that capitalism has forged to sell itself as the concoction that cures all ills, the miracle of miracles, El Dorado, adventures to the East Indies, the American dream, the conquest of the West.

In a very short time, the imperial human-capitalist culture entered into decline. It is not a territory, a geography, a climate, a homeland, a nation, a country, a pinnacle of imperial powers. It is simply and plainly a culture that summarizes the history of all sovereigns, emperors, satraps, dictators, rulers, princes, democratic, libertarian, egalitarian, fraternal, selfish, individualistic, or not; all transmuted into human transnational corporate entrepreneurs, who, under the principle of less investment/greater profit and based on the rules of supply and demand, governed exclusively by the ups and downs of the market, which must always favor them. These partners, wrapped in superiority, exclusivity, exceptionalism, but above all and above all, in the force of reason provided by the weapons of science, in every sense continue, as in the past, murdering life, producing and accumulating death euphemistically called wealth. We slaves are still searching for paradise on earth, and now we don't even find it in death because it has become so expensive. With human-capitalism, life without slavery is not possible on earth or in heaven.

This human-capitalist empire, controller of gods, magic, spells, and voodoo across the planet through its ideologies, from religion to artificial intelligence, has taken over the mind and body of the species, leading us to such a level of slavery and madness that there is no one who doesn't believe. Yes, no one who doesn't believe, because thinking hasn't been practiced in this culture for over a century; all our ideas are already pre-cooked; we continue; there is no one who doesn't believe that the future exists in the next second, and that it requires hard work.

Never before had a life-sucking machine like human capitalism been imagined, much less could it have been assumed to become the dominant culture across the entire globe. It is the only one that has accumulated, throughout history, the greatest accountable wealth, the largest apparatus of information and disinformation, the largest intelligence and counterintelligence agencies, the largest information-gathering centers ever invented by any culture to kill life. The largest corporations are there to produce weapons, drugs, and fodder for permanent war. Accompanied by the most dazzling factories of whatever one fancies, all aligned with war, organized with the method of war, disciplined like a barracks, from the school to the funeral spectacle, seeking, like war, the greatest booty through the massive exploitation of endosomatic energy that any civilization on the entire globe could have imagined; A machine that never stops, not even for repairs, across the globe, twenty-four hours a day, every year, that doesn't enjoy vacations, severance pay, or repairs; and whoever tries to stop it will receive the biggest blow of their life, from both hands of slaves and master who will come out hell-bent on defending it.

This way, use, and custom imposed on the world through blood, sweat, fire, religion, and other ideologies has managed to transmute from country to powerful country, from power to cocktail of imperial powers until today, once again suffocating with its clogged sphincters due to its productive surplus with nowhere to drain, once again trying to sell the narrative of a single imperial country so that it has an escape hatch, accusing as it flees "there goes the thief," as always, blaming the scapegoat for all the excesses. Once the Austro-Hungarian Empire, another Germany, then the Soviet Union, Japan, and today it will be the United States. To achieve this, it is necessary to destroy that state and blame it for all the evils until it is restored and everything is forgotten as a result of propaganda. And then it will be Russia and China that will pay the price when it returns to disaster due to the absence of a thought other than humane capitalism.

This human, little human, little human being, of cultural origin and practice, has dethroned and subdued all enemies that have come its way, whether natural, physical, or ideological, to the point that it has found itself having to invent fictitious enemies such as "terrorism," "weapons of mass destruction," or "Iran is building a nuclear bomb." This Chucky, who has prepared his whole life to face any enemy, whose fundamental motto is "every enemy feeds me," but, oh tragedy of tragedy, never envisioned, assumed, prepared himself, or did it ever cross his usurious mind, which never in all his life could he even suspect, that he would face the fiercest of his enemies, the scoundrel of scoundrels, the most audacious, the most cretinous, the most shameless, traitorous, deceitful, murderous, cruel, thieving, liar, the king of charlatanism and swindling, the magician of the deceptive caps, the gambler of loaded dice, the compulsive mythomaniac; we are talking about him in the flesh, looking at himself in the mirror.

Yes, dear audience, we are witnessing the greatest devastation any civilization has ever witnessed. No previous conflagration has been witnessed firsthand anywhere on the planet. Slaves and owners have already paid to see it, to smell it, to taste it, to feel it in their own flesh, because it will be in each of our bodies where the battle will be staged. The worst part is that millions of us won't even realize it's already happening, as in the case of Gaza, where it can clearly be seen how all the organizations of human-capitalist culture are consciously lending themselves to the commission of this crime. The most interesting thing is that those who finance the perpetrators do not hide their interests and shout from the rooftops, "Let's clear the land of Gazans because we need the gas and the construction of a heavenly spa." We can also say that they don't want to end the war in Ukraine, but rather wait for it to be destroyed and weaken Russia, so they can then steal its resources and invest heinously in rebuilding it. The eternal cycle of capitalism.

The vast majority of the eight billion slaves that feed this war machine in the battle for ultimate supremacy will never know what happened, even though we will be there, on the front lines.

Yes, sisters and brothers, the "I with I," the owner of owners, the individual, the selfish person, who goes at it head-on with himself, saying to himself ad nauseam, "It's either you or me, but we both can't exist in the same henhouse," had never been seen in public: "This planet is mine and no one else's."

This crumbling empire, which is neither North American nor European but human-capitalist as a conceptual culture, is not willing to go down without a fight.

Now that the inevitable has become evident, never before has such despicable behavior been seen among subhumans as that reflected by a gang of dazzled mediocrities, third-rate charlatans, who today all over the world offer themselves three for a penny and one for good measure to the human-capitalist empire, such as Trump, Milei, Macron, Merz, María Corina, Boric, Bukeles, Lula, Zelenzky, Sánchez, Netanyahu, and another gang of ajilei gamblers in seedy medicine cabinets, offering themselves as those who can save the empire, selling themselves as the most liberal, libertines, freedmen, libertarians; those who assume themselves to be its knights and stable girls errant, saviors of prepaids in trouble, as if the empire needed them. All these idiots believe the empire needs a dictator or a puppet to bail them out, like Machado, who, in her delirious binges on cheap wine, offers herself as the janitor of the Venezuelan mine, allowing them to take whatever they please. This is the illusion of an ignorant idiot, unaware that the empire's objective is not to govern any country or mine on this planet, but rather the dismantling of its states. For that, the last thing it wants is a ruler, janitor, or regent. Madam, have a little sense and modesty. The way the masters seek to dominate is through the chaos they control, through destruction, where, since they have the resources, the tools, and the slaves at their disposal, but above all, the force, they intend to seize everything and impose the new rules, the ones they can always change at will forever.

In recent years, human capitalism has shamelessly destroyed Libya, Iraq, and Syria in broad daylight, surpassing all expectations of the fascist experiment in World War II, transforming some into cheap oil suppliers and others, such as Palestine, into a tenderloin for transnational real estate companies. This hasn't moved a single fiber of the world, drugged into expectation and ignorant of what's really happening.

The domestic slaves, better known as intellectuals, academics, or politicians, are content to issue their repetitive and already stinking pamphlets, regardless of whether they are left-wing or right-wing, of any denomination or variation, because whatever they are, they're already getting paid, and they don't care about the tragedy. All that matters is how much they get paid to talk about it.

The aim of the owners, even as the human-capitalist empire deteriorates, is not to flee or disappear or lament the collapse of the system, but to collect as much wealth as possible, no matter how many massacres it takes, without worrying if small or large business owners are swallowed up by the black hole of human-capitalist selfishness, imposing their own new rules and so on ad infinitum, regardless of the dystopian world they reign in. As long as there are resources and life to exploit, the world will remain the same mine for them, always in decline, of course.

Faced with such overwhelming evidence, what do we do? Do we criticize them, pray, cry, and demand rights we don't have and will never be granted? Will we spend our lives complaining about those massacred, murdered, shot, impaled, robbed, exploited, imprisoned, invaded, and raped in Afghanistan, Libya, Palestine, Iran, Haiti, and all over the planet? Will we continue to live in illusory pasts? Will we hold on to hopes, utopias, chimeras, and illusions that one day war, exploitation, invasions, blockades, and sanctions will end, and we will all be brothers and sisters in the watchtower world, and as if by magic, happiness will come that will be too big for our chests, on earth as it is in heaven, because wealth will be equitably distributed and we will be completely free, sovereign, and independent, able to sell resources, labor, and raw materials to the masters of human capitalism at the right price, and we will be respected forever? Yes, Luis!

Or we definitively understand that there is no solution there, that no matter what we do, no matter what we shout, no matter what we desire, in the world of human capitalism, we slaves will never cease to be slaves, no matter how much we stuff ourselves with utopias or hopes. The only thing possible is to think differently from the common ground and stop admiring, applauding, and yearning for the honey of capitalism, because we are the ones who create it, and the owners enjoy it, sustained by the reason of their force and violence against us. And as long as we continue to desire riches, they will be happy forever.

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Venezuela. Rebirth and Electoral Victory of the Communist Party
July 19, 2025


“I’m going to the catacombs with the people”: Under amnisty, Hugo Chavez, the political prisoner, leaves his cell in Yare on March 27, 1994. Photo: AFP.

By Thierry Deronne – Jul 14, 2025

For some years now, militants from all over the world have frequently received communiqués signed “Communist Party of Venezuela” denouncing “the neoliberal regime of Maduro, which persecutes communists, represses workers, crushes wages and sows terror among the working classes as fascism does”. Out of automatic solidarity, often in good faith, they relay these messages without suspecting the true nature of their author, nor understanding the disinformation in which they participate. In reality, the real Communist Party of Venezuela not only actively supports the Bolivarian revolution and groups the vast majority of its militants but has just obtained a historic result in the legislative elections of May 2025.

A bit of history…
Founded in 1931, the Communist Party of Venezuela (PCV) never developed as the spearhead of the proletariat, but as one of the available niches of the pluralist facade desired by the oil oligarchy, somewhere between social democracy and Christian democracy. The eternal 1.5% of the PCV in the elections and its opportunism have had the gift of irritating, in turn, both Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez.

One of the problems of the pre-Chavez Left is that it was led by children of the bourgeoisie who, in a curious synthesis of colonialism and Marxism, saw the people as an “alienated mass to whom the political line must handed down”. Many dreamed of being the new Fidel Castro or Che Guevara, leaving behind a cemetery of martyrs, students, and peasant families sacrificed in the struggle and many severed hopes. Tired of never seeing the “great night” arrive, the people finally turned to someone who knew how to listen and talk to them: a certain Hugo Chavez.

At the prison to which his civil-military uprising against government corruption led him, the brown-skinned soldier of modest origins he comes to the understanding that the revolution will never come through that left-wing that was too much of a minority and was distant from the masses ; that the time had come to “dig up the dead seed of the mango to sow a new one” (1). His “Simon Bolivar National Project” resurrected three anti-colonial roots in popular memory: Bolivar, Rodriguez and Zamora. The alliance between civilians and military patriots recalled the kepi mounted on the peasant hat of Ezequiel Zamora, General of the “Free Lands and Men” (1817-1860). The philosopher Simón Rodríguez (1769-1854) asked the American continent, liberated from the Spanish yoke by his former student Simón Bolívar, “to invent, to be original, to stop copying old Europe”, and proposed the “toparchy” as a political model, a communal government for each territory of the Republic.

Under amnesty in 1994, the Bolivarian soldier chose the electoral road and embarked on a national tour. Everywhere, the crowds listened to him with particular attention. His great popularity irritated the PCV leadership. Years later, Chávez would tell Ignacio Ramonet: “The secretary general of the Communist Party said, when I came out of prison, ‘The presence of “Caudillo Chávez” damages the people’s movement. He objected to me joining the marches and demonstrations… -didn’t understand a thing. All they had, regrettably, was electoral opportunism.” (2). In 1999, the people, who had always been excluded, finally enter politics by electing Chávez as President of the Republic. Although the PCV does not digest that the “alienated people” have preferred a son of rural teachers, it rides the Bolivarian carrier and sticks Chávez’s picture on its posters to inflate its number of votes. It demands ministries, embassies. With the secret hope that the Bolivarian Revolution is no more than a parenthesis and that it returns to being the only party of the Left.

But the egalitarian vital breath of the Chavistas roots itself deeply into the political scenario and maintains the support of the electorate. In 2020, the secretary general of the PCV, Óscar Figuera, suddenly decrees that “socialism of the 21st century is not a scientific doctrine” and that “Nicolás Maduro is not a Chavista but a neoliberal”. The rank and file of the party criticize this turn and express their concern for the hemorrhage of militants (3). Figuera turns a deaf ear and, in order to perpetuate himself at the head of the party, calls a congress limited to 80 “faithful” instead of the usual 400 delegates. In 2023, a group of militants decided to take the matter to court. The Supreme Court finally rules in their favor. A transitional leadership is appointed, under the presidency of militant Henry Parra, to organize a congress that complies with the legal statutes. Figuera immediately denounces them as “Mercenaries of Maduro, the dictator”, in the statements destined for the international listing of the fraternal parties, before initiating the purge of the ‘traitors’: “after a long investigation, the plenary of our Central Committee has discovered that the historical heads of our department of International Relations – deputy Carolus Wimmer and Úrsula Aguilera – were in fact traitors at the service of the Maduro regime” (4).

From rebirth to the electoral victory of the new PCV


Photo: April 2025. PCV Campaign led by the new directorate under Henry Parra. Back at the center of the Chavista coalition, the Party obtained five more seats at the National Assembly.

While there are hardly any mobilizations around the former Secretary General, the new leadership of Henry Parra renewed grassroots work. Sections and cells from all over the country quickly unite, eager to make up for lost time and to rebuild the party. Militants returned to the heart of the Chavista coalition and launched the campaign for the general elections of May 2025. This strategy convinced the electorate: the PCV made a historic leap, going from one to six deputies in the National Assembly and becoming the third party in number of votes out of the 46 parties in the race.

Parra commented on the victory: “The stronger the Communist Party is, the stronger the Bolivarian Revolution will be. We keep our identities: PSUV [majority party of Chavismo, TN] bets more on the commune as a revolutionary engine while we bet on the working class. Many communist parties of Latin America have understood the manipulation of Figuera and have seen how he aligns himself with the ultra-right. We are going to organize the party congress and renew our ties with fraternal parties around the world. “Why support Maduro? His anti-imperialism. His socialist program. His proletarian origin. His capacity to guarantee peace, because even though we respect our political adversaries, we know that if the extreme right were to return to power, they would try to eliminate us, as they did in the coup against Chávez in 2002”.

Long before the electoral victory achieved by the new PCV leadership, and without falling into the trap of Figuera’s campaigns, communist parties from all over the world maintained their solidarity with the revolutionary government of Nicolás Maduro. Among them, the Communist Parties of Cuba, China, Vietnam, Nepal, South Africa, Colombia, Peru, Argentina, Brazil (PCdoB), South Korea (PDP), Philippines, Spain, Portugal, the Party for Socialism and Liberation (USA) and about 80 communist organizations grouped in the World Anti-Imperialist Platform (5). Not to mention the social movements and Marxist-inspired research centers, such as the Landless Movement of Brazil, the Tricontinental Institute led by the Indian historian Vijay Prashad, the International Peoples’ Assembly, the Peoples’ Forum (USA), etc…


Photos: On June 2025, Nicolas Maduro welcomes Wu Hansheng, Society Work Department of the Communist Party of China. The fifth visit of the Bolivarian President to China (2023) allowed him to sign an « all weather » strategic association with President Xi Jinping and to reinforce cooperation between the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) and the Communist Party of China with the purpose of eradicating poverty. On April 2025, Maduro met with Vietnam’s Communist Youth, again to reinforce cooperation. In Moscow, on May 2025, on the 80th anniversary of the victory against Nazism, he met Cuban President Diaz-Canel: The PSUV and the Communist Party of Cuba have been cooperating for a long time, at the highest level. Likewise, Maduro met with his counterparts Vladimir Putin and Captain Traore, President of Burkina Faso, with whom he signed several cooperation agreements.

Figuera in his labyrinth
After supporting the right-wing candidate Enrique Marquez in the presidential elections of 2024 and then refusing to recognize the victory of the “dictator” Maduro, the former secretary general of the PCV has refused, like the extreme right, to participate in the legislative elections of April 2025 or in the municipal elections of July 2025: “In this context of absence of guarantees and political repression, we will not participate in the elections, which are nothing but a farce”. (6) Fear of being punished by the voters? As for the international anti-fascist meetings that for two years have been taking place in Caracas, with hundreds of parties and social movements from all over the world, in his opinion, are nothing more than “the desire of the regime to hide its authoritarian and anti-democratic character”. (7)

The ritual is unchangeable. Seated before a camera, surrounded by his entourage, Figuera reads the umpteenth statement against the “neo-liberal dictatorship of Maduro”. One is reminded of Roque Dalton’s poem about a Central Committee too busy writing its statement on “the present situation and our tasks” to see that the people in the streets are making the revolution. One is also reminded of the Mexican communists who decreed that Sandino was a “liberal caudillo” or an “adventurer,” or the Bolivian communists who refused to support Che’s guerrillas. The same quiet arrogance of those who proclaim themselves the sole possessors of the direct line to Marx, the same grandiloquent rhetoric of the 1950s, repeated out of all context. A scene so caricatured that one wonders “how dare they still” (8).


Photos: Oscar Figuera, the «Communist», in action. Backing right-wing candidate Enrique Márquez for the 2024 presidential election. Protesting against the ineligibility of the extreme right-wing coup leader María Corina Machado – an oligarch, candidate of Likud and Washington, who wrote to Netanyahu asking him to intervene militarily against Maduro. Denouncing the « dictatorial practices » of Maduro together with the director of Provea, a NGO that was originally apolitical and focused on human rights but now openly opposes the Revolution. Or denouncing Maduro’s « dictatorship » live on EVTV, the Miami-based television network of Venezuela’s extreme right.

Although he professes a routine anti-imperialism (verbal criticism of the blockade against Cuba), Figuera uses the same technique as the media against the Bolivarian revolution: Erase the causes and replace them with the effects. In his opinion, the “crisis” is caused by “Maduro’s neoliberalism, which is crushing workers’ wages”. Gone is the financial blockade that prevents the Bolivarian Government from buying medicines, which has caused the death of 100,000 patients. Gone are the more than 1,000 sanctions imposed by the United States (9), which have caused Venezuela to lose 95% of its income and have generated a massive exodus (which the media attribute to the “failure of socialism”): “Low salaries, cuts in public spending and privatization attempts framed in an anti-blockade legislation are the main causes of this exodus”.

For a second, let’s forget the broken record. Why would President Maduro suddenly decide to become “neoliberal” and “crush wages”? Out of a desire to betray the Bolivarian revolution that had raised workers’ wages to the highest level in the continent? Out of a desire to make himself unpopular? The reality is that, in the face of the Western blockade, Maduro is one of the few heads of State who has not yielded to the siren calls for austerity. When he started periodically increasing salaries by 25 or 50 percent, the private sector cancelled these increases by raising its prices in the same proportion. Faced with the inflationary spiral, Maduro decided to reactivate the national productive apparatus thanks to multipolar alliances. Not only to move away from oil rentierism, but also to replenish the State’s coffers, in particular by taxing the richest. The Central Bank has thus recovered valuable resources to intervene in the foreign exchange market and defend the currency. All this has made it possible to rebuild public services and gradually increase workers’ bonuses, while limiting the inflation that was killing them. A Chinese-style strategy: maintaining and strengthening the State as a strategic player in the economy. (10)

Results: the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) reports that Venezuela has experienced the highest growth (4%) in South America for the past four years. For the first time in its 150-year oil history, the country is approaching food sovereignty, producing almost 100% of the food it consumes. In the first quarter of 2025, GDP grew by 9.32% and the country increased its non-oil exports by more than 87%. (11)

In February 2025, when Donald Trump revoked Chevron’s license to further strangle the Venezuelan economy, Maduro responded by expanding the market to Asia and delivering home number 5 million 258 thousand to a working family. On May 1, 2025, he increased the “bonus against the economic war” from $90 to $120 for 20 million families. Together with the food subsidy of 40 dollars, it amounts to 160 dollars paid each month as a supplement to the basic salary. In the private sector – the majority – the minimum wage is around $200. An important point when analyzing purchasing power in Venezuela: despite Western sanctions, and unlike neoliberal regimes, public services and basic necessities are very cheap in Venezuela. Subsidized gasoline, the cheapest in the world ($0.5 per liter), water, gas, electricity, Internet, subway, etc., are available at low cost. The food that the government supplies monthly to the population in response to the blockade costs only 5% of the price of food. Many health centers, as well as public education and culture, operate free of charge (12).

While in the West more and more families cannot make it to the end of the month, Venezuelan workers flock to the stores and “enterprises” that open every day. Caracas is invaded by commercial music and queues form early in the morning around the gigantic shopping malls (13). Thousands of Venezuelan migrants have fled the impoverishment they suffer in the “host countries” and have returned to their country thanks to the free public airline, long before the deportations and human rights violations committed by the Trump regime (14). But the former head of the PCV has issued his verdict: “The Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Venezuela considers that after the announcements made on May 1, the salaries and pensions of Venezuelans have been reduced to zero.” (15)

Surfing the image built by capitalist media
When legal mafias linked to public or private companies violate human rights, the former PCV leader automatically blames Maduro. “Maduro is sowing terror among the popular classes in the same way fascism does”. This is Figuera’s ad hominem obsession, surfing on the image settled during the last twenty years by the capitalist media. While it is true that there were workers in Venezuela who have been unjustly imprisoned, sparking legitimate struggles by social movements to obtain their release, these human rights violations do not embody a government policy.

It is not in Maduro’s Venezuela but in Ignacio Lula da Silva’s Brazil where “violence in the countryside reached a record level in 2024, and the regions where agribusiness grows concentrate the cases of assassinations”. It is not in Maduro’s Venezuela but in Gustavo Petro’s Colombia where “in 2024 a social leader was assassinated every other day – be it a human rights activist, trade unionist, Afro-descendant activist, peasant leader, etc.” and that “in 2025, 70 social leaders were assassinated”. It is not in Maduro’s Venezuela but in Claudia Sheinbaum’s Mexico where “in 2024 125,000 people were reported as disappeared” and where clandestine mass graves are periodically discovered. Does this mean that Lula, Petro or Sheinbaum have as their policy to promote these human rights violations? (16)

In Venezuela, Maduro has publicly denounced, on several occasions, police forces bribed by large landowners to evict peasants and has put an end to the assassinations of leaders committed to agrarian reform, which was common during the Chavez era (17). Attorney General, Tarek William Saab, has dismissed hundreds of corrupt judges and trigger-happy police officers. For the Chilean communist mayor Daniel Jadue, victim of Lawfare and imprisoned in his country for creating a network of popular pharmacies: “the Bolivarian process has been able to arrest and condemn hundreds of agents of the security forces for human rights violations, for disobeying orders and using firearms during the extreme right wing violence, while in Chile not a single agent of the security forces that repressed the social movement has been arrested or tried” (18).

Let’s talk about democracy. Maduro does not limit himself to simple reforms like those of his progressive neighbors. On May 25, 2025, following the broad victory of the Chavista coalition in the legislative elections, he resumed the strategic plan to build a new State based on popular self-governments. Citizen assemblies are being held throughout the country to collect proposals for this constitutional reform. The objective, explains the Bolivarian President, is “to build a modern democracy based on the direct participation of citizens, the power of social movements and the community. A great process of broad democratization of Venezuelan society, of political, institutional, economic, social, cultural and educational life. Because a system that chooses who has more money to control TikTok, Instagram, radio and television is not a democracy, but a farce, a theater of the absurd. Venezuela does not want it, because its entire history is impregnated with the idea and the desire for genuine democracy.” (19)

When Figuera denounces that the “dictator Maduro sows terror like fascism”, should we see in his speech the hand of USAID or NED (20)? Certainly, he gravitates in the ecosystem of “human rights” NGOs which, like PROVEA, have drifted towards open political opposition to the Bolivarian Revolution and its constituent assemblies. NGOs that fabricate dossiers of “political prisoners” for the media and for the “asylums” run by Venezuelan ultra-right-wing mafias in the U.S. So much so that even the Trump administration has distanced itself from this business (21). But there is an even more mediocre explanation. Before the July 2024 presidential elections, the ultra-right Machado announced that, if she won, she would “charge” the Chavistas. In other words, she would eliminate them. Did the former leader of the PCV sign a non-aggression electoral pact with her in the hope that, defeated at the polls, Chavismo would disappear? And that the PCV would once again become the only left-wing party? It is not such a far-fetched hypothesis, considering Figuera’s sectarianism and opportunism.

The struggle between the old and the new


Photos: Henry Parra, the new president of the PCV – campaigning in the streets with some comrades for the April 2025 legislative elections. Venezuela’s Communist Youth, and their leader, Manuel Aleman, explain their desire to work with the popular self-governments : « How are we nota going to support municipalities where people organize and vote according to their own interests ? »

If, for twenty years, the media empires have been labeling Venezuela as a “dictatorship”, it is because they need to prevent the Bolivarian revolution’s democratization machine from spreading. For journalist Maurice Lemoine, “at the risk of surprising Venezuela’s critics, its thousands of popular self-governments are the most ambitious experiment in participatory democracy on the continent, and probably far beyond”. The media tolerate local experiments (Zapatismo, Rojava, etc…) but must conceal this “revolution within the revolution” which threatens the system and impresses many intellectuals and movements of the Global South. For the Director of the Tricontinental Institute, Indian historian Vijay Prashad, “in Venezuela, the communes forged in the popular neighborhoods play a central role in the constitution of new ideas and material forces that move society forward”. For Puerto Rican decolonial sociologist Ramón Grosfoguel, “perhaps with all the difficulties the Empire has created in Venezuela, we are losing sight of the historical moment and what is being built in the communes which does not exist anywhere else in Latin America.

For Messilene Gorete, international coordinator of the Landless Movement of Brazil: “Sometimes, on the left, we have very closed ideas about the level of preparation and planning needed to move forward, and this can become an obstacle. Creativity – in a country where people are very spontaneous – is a great virtue of the Bolivarian revolution. Here, the people are truly the subject of the revolution. And the Venezuelan commune is a model that our continent needs.” Feminist activist Marta Martín Morán, responsible for Latin America for the Communist Party of Spain, who has observed a dozen electoral processes in Venezuela, does not hide her enthusiasm for the quarterly consultations through which the population of each commune chooses the project to be financed by the state. Mexican feminist sociologist Karina Ochoa highlights the central role of women, “eager to replace power-over with power-for” (22).

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A Structural Solution: Venezuela Bets on Ecosocialism Against Climate Change
July 23, 2025


Ricardo Molina, Minister of People's Power for Ecosocialism. Photo: Sputnik/José Negrón.

On July 10, President Nicolás Maduro announced from Mérida the launch of the Great Mother Earth Mission Venezuela, a structural policy aimed at addressing the effects of the climate crisis, transforming the country’s relationship with nature, and positioning it at the forefront of ecosocialism.

“The original charter of our country contains the centuries-old thinking of liberator Simón Bolívar regarding environmental preservation, which later became known as ecologism, conservationism, environmentalism, and what we now call ecosocialism,” noted the Venezuelan head of state. “It plays a role in reorganizing the way of life in our country.”

In an exclusive interview with Sputnik, Ricardo Molina, Minister of People’s Power for Ecosocialism, outlines the foundations, objectives, and scope of this mission, while reflecting on the geopolitical, educational, and cultural dimensions of ecosocialism as a new paradigm in Venezuelan public administration.

“The Ministry of the Environment, throughout the Western world, exists to enforce regulations on the relationship between society and nature, to justify attacks on nature,” he warns, referring to the substantial difference between the traditional model and the Venezuelan proposal.

“President Maduro, based on the experience, the track record, and the teachings of Commander Hugo Chávez, took the step of moving the Ministry of the Environment to the Ministry of Ecosocialism. Because we must promote how to continue the search for the full satisfaction of the population’s needs, with a profound respect for nature.”

This transition, the minister says, implies a transformation in the way we conceive environmental policy.

“It’s no longer a matter of this ministry granting a permit to a company … but rather how humans and nature coexist in the most harmonious way,” he asserts.

Molina points out that this new vision requires mainstreaming environmental management into all areas of the state. “One example is healthcare. Where do pharmaceuticals end up after they expire? That has an impact. How should the healthcare sector behave to help correct this? … In our vision, it’s not about that; it’s about how the community gets involved, the people who live in and around the hospital…” Molina emphasizes.

Cornerstones of a great structural mission
The Great Mother Earth Mission was born in the context of an intensification of extreme weather events that have impacted the country in recent years. Faced with this reality, Molina comments that “there was an immediate reaction from the revolutionary government, unlike anywhere else in the world … The river overflowed, swept away some houses, destroyed a road, etc. Government agencies immediately acted, along with the organized community, to begin recovering them and assisting the people.”

However, the great mission is not just a short-term response, but rather a commitment to responses in every sense.

“This great Mother Earth Venezuela mission is designed for that. That’s why [the Venezuelan president] calls it ‘the structural solution’ … for everyone to learn how to better manage their relationship with the environment, with nature,” the minister emphasizes.

The first cornerstone is grassroots organization through the Ecosocialist Councils in each commune. “We are promoting, following his [President Maduro’s] guidance, the formation of ecosocialist councils in each commune,” he notes.

The second cornerstone is “Planting for Life,” which includes an ambitious goal: “We must reach 35 million plants per year by 2028. That is the target we have set, which must then be repeated or maintained year after year. We currently have around five million plants this year,” Molina explains.

This plan isn’t just an institutional task, but a collective one, according to the official. “How do we do it? By getting people to understand the importance of this work. And there will also be paid employment, but voluntary action must be incorporated,” he adds.

The third cornerstone is “Territory for Life,” which involves bringing these plants to strategic locations. “We have to go to the headwaters of the most affected watersheds, to begin with, prioritizing the territory, so we can work on what is called water seeding.”

Currently, the pilot experience is already underway, says the Minister of People’s Power for Ecosocialism: “In the Venezuelan Andes there is already a plan … They are being carried out on the ground in Táchira, Mérida, Trujillo … to [transfer] more than 20,000 saplings to each state in the area where they were affected,” he emphasizes.

Ecosocialist education
A key element of the mission is the training dimension, Molina emphasizes. “The Environmental Training System is very important; it always has been, but the time has come to make a greater effort,” he says.

This training has two areas: the formal being school and university, and the informal being daily life, family, and community.

“It’s not that they’re introducing a subject called ecosocialism, but rather that, by understanding the principles of ecosocialism, they’re able to mainstream them into all subjects,” says Molina, noting that they’re working in coordination with the Ministry of Higher Education to train professionals in careers such as geography, veterinary medicine, biology, and hydrometeorology.

“The communities themselves encourage training in specific subjects, which will then be developed in the community,” he explains.

Molina asserts that the sixth transformation of the Homeland Plan—ecosocialism, science, and technology—also has an international component.

“Recently, for example, President Maduro included us in the mission led by Minister Julio León Heredia to Algeria, and we were there … where we saw that we have similar achievements and challenges,” he recalls.

That experience allowed us to build a joint work agenda with the Republic of Algeria: “Let’s work, for example, in the areas of nurseries and reforestation … We’re interested in seeing, for example, how they manage to use the little water they have in the most efficient way and how we can leverage those experiences to facilitate the methods we apply here,” Molina comments.

In addition, academic cooperation is being considered: “Exchanging training, such as groups of Algerian students and Venezuelan students going there to study subjects related to ecosocialism,” the official from the South American country points out.



Constitutional projection
Regarding the national consultation process for a possible constitutional reform, Molina proposes that ecosocialist reflection mainstream this effort.

“Let us all be aware of where we are. What’s happening upstream that could affect my population? Or what are we doing here that affects others downstream?” he reflects.

The minister believes this cultural shift should lead us to “consume what is truly needed,” moving away from the consumerist model. He emphasizes that this process does not negate the rational exploitation of strategic resources.

“No one can deny it: Venezuela is an oil-producing country … We are practically obligated to take advantage of these natural resources, but we are also obligated to raise awareness about how to make the best use of these resources,” he asserts.

Molina also highlights a concrete achievement of the South American nation’s environmental policy. “Venezuela is one of the few countries with negative carbon dioxide emissions. That is, the CO2 we generate is much less than what we capture. Why? Because 62% of our land area is protected areas, and the number is increasing,” he notes.

This negative emissions balance puts the country in an advantageous position. “It’s up to those countries that are conscious of it to contribute to protecting all of humanity … and we have to do it seriously,” he emphasizes.

Structural policy with a vision for the future
In the minister’s words, “no single institution can do it.” Therefore, the Great Mother Earth Mission “transcends a single ministry” and calls upon the state at all levels, but above all, the organized people.

The goal is ambitious: 35 million plants per year, an ecosocialist consciousness rooted from preschool to university, and an active citizenry in protecting the environment.

As Molina summarizes, “we can carry out economic activities with planning, with a healthy connection to nature, and with the best possible use to satisfy needs and ensure continuity and sustainability over time.”

Ecosocialism, from Venezuela, is projected not only as public policy, but as an ethic to confront global ecological collapse from the local level, with the people’s participation, environmental sovereignty, and international cooperation.

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